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RELIGIOUS POEMS SELECTED FROM 
MANY SOURCES. 



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ANSON I). F. RANDOLPH & CU., 
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Other Religious Poems. 






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The great favor which a part oF the fol- 
lowing selections had met in the form of 
" Leaflets for Letters," induced the Publisher, 
some few years ago, to gather them in a vol- 
ume that has found a wide circulation. The 
present is a new and enlarged edition. As 
the poems are mainly waifs, gathered from 
magazines and newspapers, it has not been 
possible, except in a few instances, to ascer- 
tain the names of the writers. 

New -York, March, 1865. 



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Other Religious Poems. 



IT was a time of sadness, and my heart, 
Althougli it knew and loved the better part, 
Felt wearied with the conflict and the strife, 
And all the needful discipline of life. 

And while I thought on these, as given to me — ■ 
My trial tests of faith and love to be — 
It seemed as if I never could be sure 
That faithful to the end I should endure. 

And thus, no longer trusting to His might 
Who says, " We walk by faith, and not by sight," 
Doubting, and almost yielding to despair, 
The thought arose — My cross I cannot bear : 

Far heavier its weight must surely be 
Than those of others which I daily see. 
Oh ! if I rain;ht another burden choose, 
Methiiiks I should not fear my crown to lose. 



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A solemn silence reigned on all around — 
E'en Nature's voices uttered not a sound ; 
The evening shadows seemed of peace to tell, 
And sleep upon my weary spirit fell. 

A moment's pause — and then a heavenly light 
Beamed full upon my wondering, raptured sight 
Angels on silvery wings seemed everywhere, 
And angels' music thrilled the balmy air. 

Then One, more fair than all the rest to see — 
One to whom all the others bowed the knee — 
Came gently to me as I trembling lay. 
And, " Follow me 1" He said ; " I am the Way." 

Then, speaking thus. He led me far above, 
And there, beneath a canopy of love, 
Crosses of divers shape and size were seen. 
Larger and smaller than my own had been. 

And one there was, most beauteous to behold, 
A little one, with jewels set in gold. 
Ah ! this, methought, I can with comfort wear, 
For it will be an easy one to bear : 

And so the little cross I quickly took ; 
But, all at once, my frame beneath it shook. 
The sparkbng jewels fair were they to see, 
But far too heavy was their weir/ht for mc. 



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THE GUANOED CROSS. 



" This may not be," I cried, and looked again, 
To see if there was any here could ease my pain ; 
Uut, one by one, I passed them slowly by, 
Till on a lovely one I cast my eye. 

Fair flowers around its sculptured form entwined, 
And grace and beauty seemed in it combined. 
Wondering, I gazed ; and still I wondered more 
To think so many should have jDassed it o'er. 

But oh ! that form so beautiful to see 
Soon made its hidden sorrows known to me ; 
Thorns lay beneath those flowers and colors fair 1 
Sorrowing, I said : " This cross I may not bear." 

And so it was with each and all around — 
Not one to suit my need could tliere be found ; 
Weeping, I laid each heavy burden down. 
As my Guide gently said : " No cross, no crown !" 

At length, to Him I raised my saddened heart : 
lie knew its soitows, bid its doubts depart. 
'• Be not afraid," He said, " but trust in me — 
My perfect love shall now be shown to thee." 

And then, with lightened eyes and willing feet, 
Again I turned, my earthly cross to meet, 
With forward footsteps, turning not aside, 
For fear some hidden e^il might betide ; 



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And there — In the prepared, appointed way, 
Listening to hear, and ready to obey — 
A cross I qiU'ckly found of plainest form, 
With only words of love inscribed thereon. 

With thankfulness I raised it from the rest, 
And joyfully acknowledged it the best — 
The only one of all the many there 
That I could feel was good for me to bear. 

And, while I thus my chosen one confessed, 
I saw a heavenly brightness on it rest ; 
And, as I bent, my burden to sustain, 
I recognized my own old cross again. 

But oh ! how different did it seem to bo 
Now I had learned its preciousness to see I 
No longer could 1 unbelieving say, 
Perhaps another Is a better way. 

Ah no ! henceforth my own desire shall be, 
That lie who knows me best should choose for mo 
And so, whate'er His love sees good to send, 
I'll trust it's best, because He knows th.e end. 




•' For my thoughts are not your thoughts, saith the Lord."— 
Isaiah 50 : 8. 

" For I knoTT the thoughts that I think towards you — thoughts 
of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." — 
Jer. 29 : 11. 

And when that happy time shall come, of endless peace and rest, 
We shall look back upon our path, and say : It was the best. 

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THE MEETING-PLACE, 

WHERE the faded flower shall freshen, 
Freshen never more to fade ; 
Where the shaded sky shall brighten, 

Brighten never more to shade ; 
Where the sun-blaze never scorches ; 

Where the star-beams cease to chill ; 
Where no tempest stirs the echoes 

Of the wood, or wave, or hill ; 
Where the morn shall wake in gladness, 

And the moon the joy prolong ; 
Where the daylight dies in fragrance 

'Md the burst of holy song — 
Brother, we shall meet and rest 
'Md the holy and the blest. 

Where no shadow shall bewilder ; 

Where life's vain parade is o'er ; 
Where the sleep of sin is broken, 

And the dreamer dreams no more ; 
Where the bond is never severed — 

Partings, claspings, sobs, and moan, 
ISiidnight waking, twilight weeping, 

Heavy noontide — all are done ; 
Where the child has found its mother, 

Where the mother finds the child; 






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Where dear families are gathered 

That were scattered on the wild — 
Brother, we shall meet and rest 
'Md the holy and the blest. 

Where the hidden wound is healed ; 

Where the blighted light re-blooms ; 
Where the smitten heart the freshness 

Of its buoyant youth resumes ; 
Where the love that here we lavish 

On the withering leaves of time, 
Shall have fadeless flowers to fix on, 

In an ever spring-bright clime ; 
Where we find the joy of loving, 

As we never loved before ; 
Loving on unchilled, unhindered, 

Loving once and evermore — 
Brother, we shall meet and rest 
']\Iid the holy and the blest. 

Where a blasted world shall brighten 

Underneath a bluer sphere. 
And A softer, gentler sunshine 

Shed its healing splendor here ; 
Where earth's barren vales shall blossom, 

Putting on their robe of green, 
And a purer, fairer Eden 

Be where only wastes have been ; 



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Where a Kiug, in kingly glory 

Such as earth has never known, 
Shall assume the righteous sceptre, 

Claim and wear the heavenly crown- 
Brother, we shall meet and rest 
'Mid the holy and the blest. 



THE PILGRIM. 

STILL onward through this land of foca 
I pass in Pilgrim guise ; 
I may not stop to seek repose ; 
"Where cool the shadow lies 
I may not stoop amid the grass 

To pluck earth's fairest flowers. 
Nor by her springing fountains pass 
The sultry noontide hours ; 

Yet flowers I wear upon my breast 

That no earth-garden knows — 
White lilies of immortal peace, 

And love's deep-tinted rose ; 
And there the blue-eyed flowers of faith, 

And hope's bright buds of gold, 
As lone I tread the upward path, 

In richest hues unfold, 

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I keep my armor ever on, 

For foes beset my way ; 
X watch, lest passing on alone 

I fall a helpless prey. 
No earthly love have I — ^I lean 

Upon no mortal breast ; 
But my Beloved, though unseen, 

Walks near and gives me rest. 

Afar, around, I often see, 

Throughout this desert wide. 
His Pilgrims pressing on like me — 

They often pass my side : 
The kindly smile, the gentle word, 

For Jesus' sake I give ; 
But love — O Thou alone adored I 

For Thee alone I live. 

Painful and dark the pathway seems 

To distant earthly eyes ; 
They only see the hedging thorns 

On either side that rise ; 
They can not know how soft between 

The flowers of love are strewn — 
Tbe sunny ways, the pastures green. 

Where Jesus leads His own ; 

They cannot see, as darkening clouds 
Behind the Pilgrim close, 







ffOLY TEARS. IS 

How far adown the western glade 

The golden glory flows ; 
They cannot hear 'mid earthly din 

The son"; to Pilo;nms known, 
Still blending with the angels' hyrnu 

Around the wondrous throne. 

So I, Thy bounteous token-flowers 

Still on my bosom wear ; 
While me, the fleeting love-winged hem's 

To Thee still nearer bear ; 
So from my lips Thy song shall flow, 

My sweetest music be ; 
So on mine eyes the glory grow, 

Till all Is lost in Thee. 



HOLY TEARS. 

YES, thou may'st weep, for Jesus shed 
Such tears as those thou sheddest now. 
When, for the living or the dead, 
Sorrow lay heavy on his brow. 

He sees thee weep, yet doth not blame 
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lie knoT^s its weakness, for he felt 
The crushing power of pain and woe, 

How body, soul, and spirit melt 

And faint beneath the stunning: blow. 

"What if poor sinners count thv grief 
The sign of an unchastened will ? 

lie who can give thy soul relief. 
Knows that thou art submissive still. 

Turn thee to Him, to Him alone ; 

For all that our poor lips can say 
To soothe thee, broken-hearted one, 

"Would fail to comfort thee to-day. 

"We will not speak to thee, but sit 
In prayerful silence by thy side : 

Grief has its ebbs and flows ; 'tis fit 
Our love should wait the ebbinof title, 

Jesus Himself will comfort thee. 
In His own time, in His own way ; 

And haply more than " two or three" 
Unite in prayer for thee to-day. 



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QOB OUR STRENGTH. 

MAN, in his weakness, needs a stronger stay 
Than fellow-men, the holiest and the best : 
And yet we turn to them from day to day, 
As if in them our spirits could find rest. 

Gently untwine our childish hands, that cling 
To such inadequate supports as these, 

And shelter us beneath Thy heavenly wing, 
Till we have learned to walk alone with ease. 

Help us, O Lord ! with patient love to bear 
Each other's faults, to suffer with true meekness 

Help us each other's joys and griefs to share, 
But let us turn to Thee alone in weakness. 



^WHOLLY RESIGNED. 

CHE-IST leads us through no darker rooms 
Than he went through before : 
He that into God's kingdom comes, 

Must enter by this door : 
Come, Lord, when grace hath made mc meet 

Thy blessed face to see, 
For if Thy work on earth be sweet, 
What will Thy glory be ! 

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Tlien I shall end my sad complaints, 

And weary, sinful days ; 
And join with the triumphant saints. 

That sing Jehovah's praise : 
My knowledge of that life is small, 

The eye of faith is dim, 
But 'tis enough that Christ knows all, 

And I shall be with Ilim. 



"JfF TIMES ARE IN THY HAND,"* 
Psalm 81 : 15. 

FATHER, I know that all my life 
Is portioned out for me ; 
And the changes that are sure to come, 

I do not fear to see ; 
But I ask Thee for a present mind 
Intent on pleasing Thee. 

I ask Thee for a thankful love, 
Through constant watching wise, 

To meet the glad with joyful smiles, 
And to wipe the weeping eyes, 

And a heart at leisure from itself, 
To soothe and sympathize. 



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I would not have the restless will 

That hurries to and fro, 
Seeking for some great thing to do, 

Or secret thing to know ; 
I would be dealt with as a child, 

And guided where to go. 

AVherever In the world I am, 

In whatsoe'er estate, 
I have a fellowship with hearts. 

To keep and cultivate ; 
And a work of holy love to do, 

For the Lord on whom I wait. 

I ask Thee for the daily strength, 

To none that ask denied ; 
And a mind to blend with outward life, 

'While keeping at Thy side ; 
Content to fill a little space, 

If Thou be glorified. 

And if some things I do not ask. 

In my cup of blessing be, 
1 would have my spirit filled the more 

With grateful love to Thee — 
More careful than to serve Thee much, 

To please Thee perfectly. 

There are briers besetting every path, 
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TLere is a crook in every lot, 

And a need for earnest prayer ; 
But a lowly heart that leans on Thee, 

Is happy everywJliere. 

In a service that Thy love appoints, 

There are no bonds for mc, 
For my secret heart is taught the truth 

That makes Thy children " free j" 
And a life of self-renouncinjr love 

Is a life of liberty. 



THE BORDER-LANDS. 

FATHER, into Thy loving hands 
My feeble spirit I commit, 
While wandering in these Border-Lands, 
Until Thy voice shall summon it. 

Father, I would not dare to choose 
A longer life, an earlier death ; 

I know not what my soul might lose 
By shortened or protracted breath. 

These Border-Lands are calm and still, 
And solemn are their sUent shades ; 

And my heart welcomes them, until 
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I heard them spoken of with dread, 

As fearful and unquiet places ; 
Shades, where the living and the dead 

Look sadly in each other's faces. 

But since Thy hand' hath led me here. 
And I have seen the Border-Land ; 

Seen the dark river flowing near, 
Stood on its brink, as now I stand, 

There has been nothing to alarm 
My trembling soul ; how could I fear 

While thus enci.'cled with Thine arm ? 
I never felt Thee half so near. 

Wliat should appal me in a place 
That brings me hourly nearer Thee ? 

When I may almost see Thy face — 
Surely 'tis here my soul would be. 

They say the waves are dark and deep, 
That faith has perished in the river ; 

They speak of death with fear, and weep . 
Shall my soul perish ? Never ! never ! 

1 knoAv that Thou wilt never leave 
The soul that trembles wliile it clin«s 

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To Thee : I know Thou Avilt achieve 
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And since I first was bronglit so near 
The stream that flows to the Dead Sea, 

I think that it has grown more clear 
And shallow than it used to he. 

1 can not see the golden gate 
Unfolding yet, to welcome me \ 

I can not yet anticipate 

The joy of heaven's jubilee \ 

But I will camly watch and pray 
Until I hear my Saviour's voice 

CalUng my happy soul away, 
To see his glory, and rejoice. 




''ALL, ALL JS iiTiVOIFiV TO THEE:' 

"When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, tlien Thou 
knewest my path." 

*T\ IVY God, whose gracious pity I may claim, 
_3JL Calling Thee Fathc-r — sweet, endearing 

name ! 
The S'ufTerings of this weak and weary frame, 
All, all are known to Thee. 

From human eye 'tis better to conceal 
IMuch that I suffer, much I hourly feel ; 
But oh ! the thoughl; does tranquillize and heal— 
All, all is known to Thee. 



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Each secret conflict with indwcllino: sin, 
Each sickening fear I ne'er the prize shall win, 
Eacli pang from irritation, turmoil, din — 
All, all are known to Thee. 

When in the morning imrefreshed I wake, 
Or in the night but little sleep can take, 
T^liis brief appeal submissively I make- — 
All, all is known to Tliee. 

Nay, all by Thee is ordered, chosen, planned — 
Each drop that fills my daily cup ; Thy hand 
Prescribes for ills none else can understand. 
All, all is known to Thee. 

The effectual means to cure what I deplore ; 
In me Thy longed-for likeness to restore ; 
Self to dethrone, never to govern more — 
All, all are known to Thee. 

And this continued feebleness, this state 
Which seems to unnerve and incapacitate. 
Will work the cure my hopes and prayers await — 
That can I leave to Thee. 

Nor will the bitter draught distasteful prove, 
'NVhen I recall the Sox of Thy dear love ; 
The cup Thou wouldst no; for our sakes remove — 
That cup He drank for me. 




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He drank it to the dregs — no drop remained 
Of wrath, for those whose cup of woe he drained 
Man ne'er can know what that sad cup contained, 
All, all is known to Thee. 

And welcome, irrecious, can His Spirit make 
My little drop of suffering for His sake. 
Father, the cup I drink, the path I take, 
All, all is known to Thee. 



OH! FOR THE HAPPY DAYS GONE BY 

On ! for the happy days gone by, 
When love ran smooth and free j 
Days when my spirit so enjoyed 
More than earth's liberty ! 

Oh ! for the times when on my heart 

Long prayer had never palled, 
Times when the ready thought of God 

Would come when it was called ! 

Tlicn when I knelt to meditate. 
Sweet thoughts came o'er my soul, 

Countless, and bright, and beautiful, 
Beyond my own control. 

Oh ! Avho hath lockei those fountains up ? 
Those visions w lio hath staid ? 




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What sudden act hath thus transformed 
My sunshine Into shade ? 

This freezing heart, O Lord ! this will, 

Dry as the desert sand — 
Good thoughts tliat will not come, bad thought 

That come without command — 

A faith that seems not faith, a hope 

That cares not for its aim — 
A love that none the hotter growo 

At Jesus' blessed name — 

The weariness of prayer, the mist 

O'er conscience overspread — 
The chill repugnance to frequent 

The feast of angels' bread : 

If this drear change be Thine, O Lord I 

If it be Thy sweet will, 
Sjiare not, but to the very brim 

The bitter chalice fill ; 

But if it hath been sin of mine, 

Oh ! show that sin to me — 
Not to get back the sweetness lost, 

But to make peace with Thee. 

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That separates my soul from Thee, 
And yet to know it not. 

Oh ! when the tide of graces set 

So full upon my heart, 
I know, dear Lord, how faithlessly 

I did my little part. 

I know how well my heart hath earned 

A chastisement like this, 
In trifling many a grace away 

In self-complacent bliss. 

But if this weariness hath come 

A present from on high, 
Teach me to find the hidden wealth 

That in its depths may lie ; 

So in this darkness I can learn 

To tremble and adore, 
To sound my own vile nothingness, 

And thus to love Thee moro; 

To love Thee, and yet not to think 

That I can love so mucli ; 
To have Thee with me. Lord ! all day 

Yet not to feel Thy touch. 

If I have served Thee, Lord ! for hire, 
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Ah ! I can serve Thee now for naught, 
And only as my God. 

Oh ! blessed be this darkness, then, 

This deep in Avhich I lie ; 
And blessed be all things that teach 

God's dread supremacy ! 




LOST TREASURES. 

LET us be patient, God has taken from us 
The earthly treasures upon which we leaned, 
That from the fleeting things which lie around us, 
Our clinging hearts should be for ever weaned. 

They have passed from us — all our broad posses- 
sions : 
Ships, whose white sails flung wide past distant 
shores ; 
liands, whose rich harvests smiled In the glad sun- 
shine ; 
Silver and gold, and all our hoarded stores. 

And, dearer far, the pleasant home where gatliercd 
Our loved and loving round the blazing hearth j 

Where honored age on the soft cushions rested, 
And childhood played about m frolic mirth. 



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Where underneath the softened light bent kindly 
The mother's tender glance on daughters lair, 

And he on whom all leant "with fond confiding, 
Rested contented from his daily care. 

All shipwrecked in one common desolation ! 

The garden-wallvs by other feet are trod ; 
The clin2:inf; vines by other fin2:ers tutored 

To fling their shadows o'er the grassy sod. 

While carking care and deep humiliation, 
In tears are mingled with their daily bread; 

And the rude blasts we never thought could reach 
us, 
Have sf)ent their worst on each defenseless head. 

Let us be cheerful ! The same sky o'erarches — 
Soft rain falls on the evil and the good ; [ing 

On narrow walls, and through our humbler dwell 
God's glorious sunshine pours as rich a flood. 

Faith, hope, and love still in our hearts abiding. 
May bear their precious fruits in us the same ; 

And to the couch of sufierlng we may carry, 
If but the cup of water, In His name. 

Lt;t us be thankful, if in this affliction 
No grave is opened for the loving heart ; 

And while we bend beneath our Father's chiding, 
We yet can mourn " each family apart." 



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Shoulder to shoulder let us breast the torrent, 
"With not one cold reproach nor angry look ; 

There are some seasons, when the heart is smitten, 
It can no whisper of unkindness brook. 

Our life is not in all these brief possessions ; 

Our home is not in any pleasant spot : 
Pilgrims and strangers we must journey onward, 

Contented with the portion of our lot. 

These earthly walls must shortly be dismantled ; 

These earthly tents be struck by angel hands ; 
But to be built up on a sure foundation, 

There, where our Father's mansion ever stands 

There shall we meet, parent and cliild, and dearer 
That earthly love which makes half heaven of 
home ; 

There shall we find our treasures all awaiting. 
Where change and death and parting never 

come. 

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"I WAS in the spirit on the Lord's day."— Rev. 1 : 10. 

A FTER long days of storms and showers, 
[\ Of sighing winds, and dripping bowera, 
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To miss the clouds, and driving rain, 
And see that all is briHit axrain — 
So bright we cannot choose but say, 
Is this the world of yesterday ? 

Even so, methinks, the Sunda}' brings 
A change o'er all familiar things ; 
A change — we know not whence it camo— 
They are, and they are not, the same. 

There is a spell within, around. 
On eye and ear, on sight and sound , 
And, loth or willing, they and we 
Must own this day a myster}'. 

Sure all things wear a heavenly dress 
That sanctifies their loveliness, 
Types of that endless resting-day, 
When " we shall all be changed " as they. 

To-day our peaceful, ordered home 
Forcshadoweth mansions yet to come , 
We foretaste, in domestic love, 
The faultless charities above. 

And as at yester-eventlde 
Our tasks and toys were laid aside 5 
Lo ! here our training for the day 
When we shall lay them down for aye. 



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But not alone for musings deep, 
Meek souls their " day of days " will keep ; 
Yet other glorious things than these, 
The Christian in his Sabbath sees. 

His eyes, by faith, his Lord behold ; 
How on the week's first day of old 
From hell he rose, on Death he trod, 
Was seen of men, and went to God. 

And as we fondly pause to look 
Where in some daily-handled book, 
Approval's well-known tokens stand, 
Traced by some dear and thoughtful hand 

Even so there shines one day in seven, 
Bright with the special mark of Heaven, 
That we with love and praise may dwell 
On Him who loveth us so well. 

Whether in meditative walk. 
Alone with God and heaven "we talk, 
Catching the simple chime that calls 
Our feet to some old church's walls ; 

Or passed within the church's door, 
Where poor are rich, and rich are poor, 
We say the prayers, and hear the word. 
Which there our fathers said and heard ; 




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Or represent in solcini) wise, 
Our all-prevailing sacrirure 5 
Feeding in joint eonnnunion high, 
The life of faith that cannot die. 

And surely, in a world like this, 
So rife with woe, so scant of bliss — 
Where fondest hopes are oftenest crossed. 
And fondest hopes are severed most ; 

'Tis something that wc kneel and pray 
With loved ones near and far away ; 
One God, one faith, one hope, one care, 
One form of words, one hour of prayer. 

*Tis just — ye( pause, till ear and heart, 
In one brief silence, ere we part. 
Somewhat of that hiirh strain have cauirht, 
" The peace of God which passeth thought." 

Then turn we to our earthly homes, 
Not doubting but that Jesus comes 
Breathing his peace on hall and hut 
At evening, when the doors are shut ; 

Then speeds us on our work-day way, 
And hallows every, connnon day ; 
Without Ilim Sunday's self were dim, 
But all are bri{»;ht, if t- pent with Ilim. 




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ONE B Y ONE. 

ONE by one the sands arc llowinfr 
One by one the nionuMits fall, 
Sonic arc cominfr, }H)nie are iroin<'- — 
Do not strive to nrasp them all 

One by one thy duties wait thee, 
Let thy whole strength f^o to each ; 

Let no future dreams elate tluH'. ; 

Learn thou first what those can teach. 

One by one, (bright -^Ifls from heaven,) 
Joys are sent thee here below; 

Take them readily, when given — 
Heady, too, ta let them go. 

One by one thy griefs shall meet thee, 
Do not fear an armed band ; 

Que will fade, while others greet thco, 
Shadows passing through the land. 

Do not look at life's long sorrow, • 
Sec how small eaeh moment's pain; 

God Avill help thee for to-morrow — 
Every day begin again. 

Every hour that fleets ro slowly, 
Has its task to do or bear; 



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Luminous the crown, and lioly, 
If thou set each gem with care. 

Do not linger with regretting, 
Or for passion's hour despond; 

Nor, the daily toil forgetting, 
Look too eagerly beyond. 

Hours are golden links, God's token, 
Reaching heaven, but one by one 

Take them, lest the chain be broken 
Ere the pilgrimage be done. 



MARTS CHOICE. 

JESUS, engrave it on my heart, 
That Thou the one thing needful art 
I could from all things parted be, 
But never, never, Lord, from Thee. 

Needful is Thy most precious blood, 
Needful is Thy correcting rod. 
Needful is Thy indulgent care, 
Needful Thy all-prevailing prayer. 

Needful Thy presence, dearest Lord, 
True peace and comfort to afford \ 






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JS'eedful Thy promise to impart 
Fresh life and vigor to my heart. 

Needful art Thou to be my stay 
Through all life's dark and thorny way ; 
Nor less in death Thou'lt needful be, 
To bring my spirit home to Thee. 

Then needful still, my God, my King, 
Thy name eternally I'll sing ; 
Glory and praise be ever His — 
The " one thing needful " Jesus is. 



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''NEARER home:' 

ONE sweetly solemn thought 
Comes to me o'er and o'er ; 
I'm nearer home to-day 

Than I ever have been before. 

Nearer my Father's house, 

Where the many mansions bo ; 

Nearer the great white throne, 
Nearer the jasper sea ; 

Nearer the bound of life, 

Where we lay our burdens down ; 




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TO BE READY. 



Nearer leaving tlie cross, 
Nearer wearing the crown. 

But lying darkly between, 

Winding down througli tlic night, 
Is the dim and unknown stream 

That leads at last to the light. 

Closer, closer my steps 

Come to the dark abysm. 
Closer, death to my lips 

Presses the awful chrism. 

Saviour, perfect my trust, 

Strengthen the might of my faith, 
Let me feel as I would when I stand 

On the rock of the shore of death ; 

Feel as I would when my feet 
Are slipping over the brink ; 

For it may be I'm nearer home, 
Nearer now than I think. 



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^H ! to be ready when death shall dome, 
Oh I to be ready to hasten home ! 
No earthward clinging, no lingering gaze. 
No strife at parting, no sore amaze ; 



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No chains to sever that earth hath twined, 
No spell to loosen that love would bind. 

No flitting shadows to dim the light 
Of the angel-pinions winged for flight ; 
No cloud-like phantoms to fling a gloom 
'Twixt heaven's bright portals and earth's dark 

tomb ; 
But sweetly, gently, to pass away 
From the world's dim twilight into day. 

To list the music of angel lyres, 
To catch the rapture of seraph fires, 
To lean in trust on the risen One, 
Till borne away to a fadeless throne. 
Oh ! to be ready when death shall come f 
Oh ! to be ready to hasten home ! 



THE BRIDEGROOM'S DOVE. 

" -MT Dove ! in the clefts of the rock, in the secret of tlio 
stairs."— Cast. 2 : 14. 

' ' "A /TY Dove !" The Bridegroom speaks. To 
IVi- whom ? 

Whom, think'st thou, meaneth He V 
Say, O my soul I canst thou presume 
He thus addrcsscth thee ? 




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Yes, 'tis the Bridegroom's voice of love, 
Calling thee, O my soul J His Dove I 

The Dove is gentle, mild, and meek : 

Deserve I, then, the name ? 
1 look within in vain to seek 

Aught v/hich can give a claim : 
Yet, made so by redeeming love. 
My soul, thou art the Bridegroom's Dove I 

Methinks, my soul, that thou may'st see, 

In this endearino; word, 
Reasons why Jesus likens thee 

To this defenseless bird ; 
Reasons which show the Bridegroom's lovo 
To His poor hclj^less, timid Dove I 

Tlie Dove, of all the feathered tribe, 

Doth least of power possess" 
My soul, what better can describe 

Thine utter helplessness ? 
Yet courage take ! the Bridegroom's lovo 
Will keep, defend, protect His Dove I 

The Dove hath neither claw nor sting, 

Nor weapon for the fight ; 
She owes her safety to her wing, 

Her victorv to fliohf. 





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A shelter hath the Bridegroom's love 
Provided for his helpless Dove I 

The Hawk comes on, in eager chase — 

The Dove will not resist ; 
In flying to her hiding-place, 

Her safety doth consist. 
The Bridegroom opes His arms of love, 
And in them folds His panting Dove 1 

Nothing the Dove can now molest, 
Safe from the fowler's snare ; 

The Bridegroom's bosom is her nest — 
Nothino; can harm her there. 

Encircled by the arms of love, 

Almighty power protects the Dove I 

As the poor Dove, before the Hawk, 

Quick to her refuge flies, 
So need I, in my daily walk. 

The wing Avhich fiiith supplies, 
To bear me where the Bridegroom's love 
Places beyond all harnn ILs Dove ! 

My soul of native powei bereft, 
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Imraanucl is the rochj clefU 

" The secret of the stairs ! '* 
Since placed thereby tha Bridegroom's love, 
What evil can befall His Dove ? 

Though Sinai's thunder round her roars, 

Though Ebal's lightnings flash, 
Though heaven a fiery torrent pours. 

And riven mountains crash — 
Through all, the " still small voice " of love 
Whispers : " Be not afraid, my Dove ! " 

What though the heavens away may pass, 

With fervent heat dissolve ; 
And round the sun this earthly mass 

No longer shall revolve ! 
Behold a miracle of love ! 
The lion quakes, but not the Dove I 

My soul, now hid within a rock, 

(The " Rock of Ages " called,; 
Amid the universal shock 

Is fearless, unappalled. 
A cleft therein, prepared by love, 
In safety hides the Bridegroom's Dove ! 

O happy Dove ! thus weak, thus safo 
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GOD MY EXCEEDING JOY. 39 



Then to my soul, O Lord 1 voiiclisafo 

A dove-Ulce character ! 
Pure, harmless, gentle, full of love, 
Make me in spirit, Lord, a Dove I 

O Thou, who on the Bridegroom's head 

Didst, as a Dove, come down. 
Within my soul Thy graces shed. 

Establish there Thy throne ; 
There shed abroad a Saviour's love, 
Thou holy, pure, and heavenly Dove ! 

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GOD, MY EXCEEDING JOY, 
Psalm 43 : 4. 

EARLY my spirit turned 
From earthly things away, 
And agonized and yearned 

For the eternal day ; 
Dimly I saw, when but a boy, 
God, my exceeding joy. 



la days of fiercer flame, 
When passion urged mc on, 

'Twas only bliss in name — 
The pleasure soon was gone. 



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Compared with Tliee, Iiow all things cloy, 
God, my exceeding joy! 

At length the moment came — 
Jesus made known His love ; 

High shot the kindllno; flame 
To glories all above. 

Now all my powers one theme employ 
God, my exceeding joy. 

Shadows came on apace ; 

Tears were a pensive shower ; 
I cried for timely grace 

To save me from the hour ; 
Thou gavest peace without alloy, 

God, my exceeding joy. 

One trial yet awaits, 

Gigantic at the close ; 
All that my spirit hates 

INIay then my peace oppose ; 
But God shall this last foe destroy, 

God, my exceeding joy. 





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GOiyS SUPPORT AND GUIBANCE. 

TRANSLATED FROM THE GEKMAN. 

FORSAKE me not, my God, 
Thou God of my salvation ! 
Give me Thy light, to be 

My sure illumination. 
My soul to folly turns, 

Seeking she knows not what ; 
Oh ! lead her to thyself — 
My God, forsake me not ! 

Forsake me not, my God ! 

Take not Thy Spirit from mc • 
And suffer not the might 

Of sin to overcome mc. 
A father pitieth 

The children he begot ; 
My Father, pity me — 

My God, forsake me not. 

Forsake me not, my God ! 

Thou God of life and power, 
Enliven, strengthen me 

In every evil hour ; 
And when the sinful fire 

Within my heart is hot, 







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Be not Thou far iVom mc — 
My God, forsake me iiotl 

Forsake mc not, my God I 

Uphold mc in my going, 
That evermore I may 

Please Thee in all Avcll-doiug, 
And that Thy will, O Lord ! 

May never be forgot, 
In all my works and ways — 

My God, forsake mc not 1 

Forsake mc not, my God ! 

I would be thine for ever I 
Confirm mc mightily 

In every right endeavor: 
And when my hour is come, 

Cleansed from all stain and spot 
Of sin, receive my soul — 

My God, forsake mc not! 



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I A M, 

" 0®D calls himself 1 AM, leaving a blank which each sou 
may fill up with that which i-s most precious to himself." 

ry^IIOU bidd'st us call, and giv'st us many a 
1 name, 

That thou may'st hear and answer every cry • 
But— for the wants of all are not the same— 

Another name Thy wondrous love did try ; 
To Moses first Thou gav'st it, and he knew 
Its worth, and taught us Iioav to prize it, too : 
I All— let every sinner kneel, and thank 
The Lord, and with his wants fill up the blank. 
Thy very wounds do say, each drop they bleed, 
" I AM thy need." 

Oh ! I am weary of this life, 

Of all its vanity and care ; 
Where can I hide me from its strife, 

From all its noises — where ? 
My spirit sinks beneath the load, 
I pant to reach a safe abode. 
"W hen shall I find a sAveet release ? 
Eomains there yet a lasting peace, 
A calm for my long storm-tost breast? 
" I AM thy rest." 



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Oil ! I am full of grievous sin, 
I can do naught that's right ; 

God ! how base my soul is in 
Thy pure and holy sight ! 

Thy perfect laAvs I daily, hourly break, 
And will not yield my will for Thy sweet sake. 
Still in my soul do burn wicked desires, 
And my heart's altar bears unhallowed fires ; 

1 can do naught but all these thinirs confess. 

" I AM thy righteousness." 

But, Lord, I am so weak, so Aveak, 

I cannot stand before Thy face ; 
Th}'' praises I can hardly speak. 

Hardly stretch forth my hands for grace; 
The way seems long, the burden who can bear " 
Lord, must I sink beneath the load of care ? 
Thus is it now ; what shall it be at length ? 
« I AIM thy strength." 

Lord, I must die ; e'en now the wing 

Of Thy dread angel hovereth nigh; 
I know the messaire he doth brine: — 

" Soul, thou hast sinned, and thou must die.'* 
All nature feels and owns the just decree ; 
And is this all that is in store for me — 
Ashes to ashes, dust to kindred dust, 
No hope, no light? Surely my spirit must 









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Sink in despair ere nature's last, fierce strife — 
« I AM thy life." 

Oh ! -wonderful Thou art ! 

Too wonderful for me is such cfreat love. 
Shining in such a heart 

Like sunbeams from above. 
How rich am I ! yea, all things I possess — 
Peace, joy, life, strength, and perfect righteous- 
ness. 
Jehovah shoAvs Himself, and gives to me 
All my desire. Look, trembling soul ! and sco 
On what a treasury thy want may call — 
"I AIM thine all in all." 



A LITTLE WHILE. 

BEYOND the smiling and the weepijig 
I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the waking and the sleeping, 
Beyond the sowing and the reaping, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest, and home ! 

Sweet hope ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 



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Beyond the \)looinin<j: niul the fading; 

1 shall be so(»n ; 
Bevoiul the shiniui; and the idiadlno; 
Beyond the hopinu: and the dreading;, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest, and home ! 

Sweet hojH' I 
Lonl, tarry not, luit eome. 

Beyond the risini:; and the settuig 

I shall be soon ; 
BeAond the eahnin>: antl the iVettlnj!, 
Beyond renieniberinir an<l lbr'»ettlno\ 
I sliall be soon. 
Love, rest, and home 

Sweet hope I 
Lord, tarry not, but eome. 

Beyond the ^atherln-i- and the strewino 

I shall be soon ; 
Beyond tho ebbing and the flowing, 
Bevond the eominir and tiie iroln*^, 
1 shall be soon. 
Love, rest, and home ! 

Sweet hope ! 
Lonl, tarry not, bnt eome. 

Beyond the parting and the meeting 
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Beyond tlio farewell and the greeting, 
Beyond this pulse's fever beating, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest, and home 1 

Sweet hope ! 
Lord, tarry not, but eome. 

Beyond the frost-<;haIn and the fever 

I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the rock-waste and the river, 
Beyond the ever and the never, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest, and home 

Sweet hope I 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 



HINDER MB NOT. 



HINDER me not ! the path is long and weary, 
I may not pause nor tarry by the way ; 
Night Cometh, when no man may journey onward, 
For we must walk as children of the day. 

I know the city lieth fair behind me, 

The very brightest gem that studs the plaiu 

But thick and fast the lurid clouds are rising, 
Which soon shall scatter into fiery rain. 

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HINDER ME NOT. 



1 must press on until I reach my Zoar, 

And there find refuge from the fearful blast : 

In Thy cleft side, O smitten Saviour ! hide me, 
Till the calamity be overpast. 

Ye cannot tempt me back with pomp or pleasure , 
All, in my eager grasp, have turned to dust. 

The shield of love around my hearth is broken ; 
How shall I place on man's frail life my trust ? 

But my heart lingers when I pass the dwellings 
^Vliere children play about tlie open door ; 

And pleasant voices waken up the echoes, 
From silent lips of those I see no more. 

For through their chambers swept the solemn 
warning, 
Arise ! depart ! for this is not your rest ; 
Tlicy folded their pale hands and sought the pres- 
ence — 
I only bore the arrow in my breast. 

But there is balm in Gilead, and a Healer 
Whose sovereign poAver can cure our every ill ; 

And to the soul, more wildly tempest-tossing 
Than ever Galilee, say : " Peace, be still!" 

Who, showing His own name thereon engraven, 
With bleedinn; hands will draAv the dait again. 







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And whisper : " Should the true disciple muijuur 
To taste the cup his Master's lip could drain V" 

And then lead on, until we reach the river 
"Which all must cross, and some must cross 
alone ; 

Oh ! ye who in the land of peace are wearied, 
How shall ye breast the Jordan's swelling moan '»* 

I know not if the wave shall rage or slumber, 
When I shall stand upon the nearer shore ; 

But one whose form the Son of God resembleth, 
Will cross with me, and I shall ask no more. 

O weary heads ! rest on your Saviour's bosom. 

O weary feet ! press on the path He trod. 
O weary souls ! your rest shall be remaining, 

When ye have gained the city of your God. 

O glorious v;ity ! jasper built, and shining 
With God's own glory in effulgent light, 

Wherein no manner of defilement cometh, 
Nor any shadow flung from passing night. 

There shall ye pluck fruits from that tree immortal, 
And be like gods, but find no curse therein. 

Inhere shall ye slake your tliirst In that full fount- 
ain [sin. 
Whose distant streams sufficed to cleanse your 





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There shall ye find your dead in Christ arisen, 
And learn from them to sinjj the angels' soiior , 

NVell may ye echo from earth's waiting prison, 
The martyr's cry : " How long, O Lord ! how 
lonsc !" 



., "/ CLING TO thee:' 

OHOLY Saviour, Friend unseen ! 
Since on Thine arm thou bidst me lean, 
Help me, throughout life's varying scene, 
By faith I cHng to Thee. 

Blest with this fellowship divine. 
Take what Thou wilt, I'll ne'er repine : 
E'en as the branches to the vine. 

My soul would cling to Thee. 

Far from her home, fatigued, oppressed, 
Here has she found her place of rest. 
An exile still, yet not unblessed, 

While she can cling to Thee. 

Wliat though the world deceitful prove, 
And earthly friends and joys removo 
With patient uncomplaining love, 
Still would I cling to Thee. 



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Though faith and hope may long be tried, 
I ask not, need not aught beside ; 
How safe, how cahn, how satisfied, 
The soul that clings to Thee ! 

They fear not Satan, nor the grave ; 
They feel Thee near, and strong to save ; 
Nor dread to cross e'en Jordan's wave, 
Because they cling to Thee. 

Blest is my lot — whate'er befall ; 
What can disturb me — who appall ? 
While, as my strength, my rock, my all, 
Saviour ! I clinjx to Thee. 



''ALONE, YET NOT ALONE."" 

WHEN no kind earthly friend is near. 
With gentle words my heart to cheer 
Still am I with my Saviour dear : 

" Alone, yet not alone." 

Though no loved forms my path attend, 
With tender looks o'er me to bend, 
Yet am I with my unseen Friend : 
" Alone, yet not alone." 

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And I rejoice in the belief: 

" Alone, yet not alone." 

'Tis on His strength that I rely, 
And doubts and fears at once defy, 
So happy, so content am T, 

" Alone, yet not alone." 

E'en "when with friends my lot is cast, 
And words of love are flowing fast. 
Still am I, when those hours are past, 
" Alone, yet not alone." 

If all my earthly friends remove. 
My fondest wishes empty prove, 
Still am I with my Saviour's love 
" Alone, yet not alone. 

^Vhate'er may now to me betide, 
T have a place wherein to hide 
By faith ; 'tis e'en at His blest side : 
" Alone, yet not alone.'^ 



THE SCHOOL OF SUFFERIKO, 

SAVIOUR, beneath Thy yoke 
My wayward heart doth pine ; 
All unaccustomed to the stroke 
Of love divine: 






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THE SCHOOL OF SUFFERING. 53 



Thy clmstisements, my God, arc hard to bear, 
Thy cross is heavy for frail flesh to wear. 

" Perishing child of clay ! 

Thy sighing I have heard ; 
Long have I marked thy evil way, 
HoAv thou hast erred ! 
Yet fear not, by my own most holy name 
I will shed healing through thy sin-sick frame. ' 

Praise to Thee, gracious Lord ! 

I fain would be at rest ; 
Oh ! now fulfil Thy faithful word 
And make me blest ; 
My soul would lay her heavy burden down. 
And take, with joyfulness, the promised crown. 

" Stay, thou short-eighted child ! 
There is much first to do, 
Thy heart, so long by sin defiled, 
1 must renew ; 
Thy will must here be taught to bend to mine. 
Or the sweet peace of heaven can ne'er be thine. 

Yea, Lord, but Thou canst soon 

Perfect Thy work in me, 
Till, like the pure, calm summer noon 

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A moment shine, that all Thy power may traco, 
Then pass In stillness to my heavenly place. 

" Ah ! coward soul, confess 

Thou shrinkcst from my cure, 
Thou tremblest at the sharp distres 
Thou must endure. 
The foes on every hand for war arrayed, 
The thorny path in tribulation laid ; 

" The process slow of years, 
The discipline of life ; 
Of outward woes and secret tears, 
Sickness and strife ; 
Thine idols taken from thee one by one, 
Till thou canst dare to live with me alono. 

" Some gentle souls there are, 
Who jdeld unto my love, 
Who, ripening fast beneath my care, 
I soon remove ; 
But thou stiff-necked art, and hard to rule ; 
Thou must stay longer in affliction's school." 

My Maker and my King ! 
Is this Thy love to me ? 
Oh ! that I had the lightning's wing, 
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Ho^w^ can I bear the heavy weight of woes 
Thine indignation on the creature throws ? 

" Thou canst not, O my child ! 
So hear my voice again ; 
I will bear all thy anguish wild, 
Thy grief, thy pain ; 
My arms shall be around thee, day by day, 
My smile shall cheer thee on thy heavenward way. 

" In sickness, I will be 

Watching beside thy bed. 
In sorrow thou shalt lean on me 
Thy aching head , 
In every struggle thou shalt conqueror prove, 
Nor death itself shall sever from my love." 

O grace beyond compare ! 

love most high and pure 1 
Saviour, begin, no longer spare, 

1 can endure ; 

Only vouchsafe Thy grace, that I may live 
Unto Thy glory who canst so forgive. 



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THE PILGRBPS WANTS 

TWANT that adorning divine, 
Thou, only, my God, canst bestow ; 
I want in those beautiful garments to shine, 
Which distinguish Thy household below. 

Col. 3:12-17. 

I want, oh ! I want to attain 

Some likeness, my Saviour, to Thee : 

That lono-cd-for resemblance once more to rcjiain, 
Thy comeliness put upon me. 

1 John 3 : 2, 3. 

1 want to be marked for Thy own ; 

Thy seal on my forehead to wear ; 
To receive that " new name " on the mystic white 

stone, 
Which only Thyself canst declare. 

Rev. 2:17. 

[ Avant, every moment, to feel 

That the Spirit does dwell in my heart ; 
That His power is present to cleanse and tc ficai. 

And newness of life to impart. 

Rom. 8:11 ir. 

I want so in Thee to abide, 

A.S to bring forth some fruit to Thy praise; 






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The branch that Thou pruiiest, though feeble and 
dried, 
May Languish, but never decays. 

John 15.2-5. 

I want Thine own hand to unbind 

Each tie to terrestrial things, 
Too tenderly cherished, too closely cntAvined, 

Where my heart too tenaciously clings. 

1 John 2 : 15. 

I Avant, by my aspect serene, 

My actions and words, to declare 
That ray treasure is placed in a country unseen, 

That my heart and affections are there. 

Matt. 6:19-21. 

I want, as a traveller, to haste 

Straight onward, nor pause on my way ; 
No forethought or anxious contrivance to waste 

On my tent, only pitched for a day. 

Heb. 13 : 5, 6. 

I want (and this sums up my prayer) 

To glorify Thee till I die ; 
Then calmly to yieJ.d up my soul to Thy care, 

And breathe out m prayer my last sigh. 

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H EA VF.N. 

OH ! Leaven is nearer than mortals think, 
When they look with a trembling dread 
At the misty future that stretches on, 
From the silent home of the dead. 

'Tis no lone isle on a boundless main, 

No brilliant but distant shore, 
Where the lovely ones who are called away 

Must go to return no more. 

No, heaven is near us ; the mighty veil 

Of mortality blinds the eye. 
That we cannot see the angel bands, 

On the shores of eternity. 

The eye that shuts in a dying hour 

Will open the next in bliss ; 
The welcome will sound in the heavenly world, 

Ere the farewell is hushed in this. 

We pass from the clasp of mourning friends, 
To the arms of the loved and lost. 

And those smiling faces will greet us there, 
Which on earth we have valued most. 

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That power to pierce through the mist of sense, 

To the beauteous scenes of heaven. 

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Then very near seem its pearly gates, 

And sweetly its harpings fall ; 
Till the soul is restless to soar away, 

And longs for the anfj-el's call. 

1 know when the silver cord is loosed, 

When the veil is rent away, 
Not long and dark shall the passage be, 

To the realms of endless day. 






A VOICE FROM HEAVEK, 

I SHINE in the light of God, 
His image stamps my brow ; 
Through the shadoAvs of Death my feet liavo trod, 

And I reign in glory now. 
No breaking heart is here. 

No keen and thrilling pain. 
No wasted cheek, where the burning tear 
Hath rolled, and left its stain. 

1 have found the joys of heaven, 

I am one of the angel baud ; 
To my head a crown is given, 

And a harp is in my hand ; 



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A VOICE FROM HEAVEN. 



I have learned the song they sing, 

Whom Jesus hath made free, 
jViid the glorious walb of heaven still ring 

AVith my new-born melody. 

No sin, no grief, no pain — 

Safe in my happy home : 
My fears all fled, my doubts all slain, 

My hour of triumph come ; 
friends of my mortal years 1 

The trusted and the true, 
You're walking still the vale of tears, 

But I wait to welcome you. 



Do I forget ? Oh ! no, 

For memory's golden chain 
Shall bind my heart to the hearts below 

Till they meet and touch again ; 
Each link is strong and bright, 

AVhile love's electric flame 
Flows freely down, like a river of light, 

To the world from whence I came. 



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Do you mourn when another star 
Shines out from the glorious sky ? 

Do you weep when the voice of war 
And the rage of conflict die ? 





SUP FLIC ATION. 




Why then should your tears roll down, 
Or your heart be sorely riven, 

For another gem in the Saviour s crown, 
And another soul in heaven ? 




supplication: 

LORD, hear my prayer ! 
Turn not Thine ear from my distress, 
But with Thy loving mercy bless, 
Lest I despah" 

Be gracious, Lord ! 
My soul is oft opprcst and weak ; 
Oh ! aid me when I comfort seek 

In Thy blest word. 

My footsteps stray ; 
I wander often from the road 
That leads to peace and Thee my God 

Teach Thou the way. 

Oh ! make me pure, 
Clothe Thou my soul in spotless white, 
That ray acceptance in Thy sight, 

Be always surc^ 

Let me be one 
Of all the sinless comx^any 



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EVENING PRAYER. 

Tliat round Thy throne hosannahs sing-, 
Through Christ Thy Son. 

Thy will be done 
On earth, as by each holy one, 
Thy own redeemed, who near thy throne, 

Bow down the knee ! II ^n. 



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EVENING PRAYER. 

FATHER of mercy ! at the close of day, 
My work and duties done, to Thee I pray 
Before I sleep ; 
With clasped hands I humbly bow my head, 
And ask Thee, Lord, ere I retire to bed. 
My soul to keep. 

The sins and failings of the day now past. 
The shadows on my soul that they have cast, 

Do Thou forgive ; 
Oh ! purge my life from every taint of sin, 
That I within Thy courts may enter in. 

With Thee to live. 

Whatever sorrow I this day have known, 

I spread it now, O Lord ! before Thy throne— 

Oh ! succor send ; 
I woidd beneath Thy chastening hand be still, 



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THE WANDERING HEART. 63 



And meekly bow before Thy sovereign will, 
Unto the end. 

And now, with folded hand upon my breast, 
At peace with Thee, I lay me down to rest 

Upon my bed ; 
May angels guard me through the darksome nig] it. 
From troubled dreams, until the morninjr lijiht 

Its beams shall shed. R n. 



THE WANDERING HEART. 

ALAS ! for the wildly wandering heart, 
And its chanoincf idol o;uests ! 
It has roamed away to the world's far ends, 

At the vagrant wind's behests. 
More fleet in its course than the flying dart. 
Alas ! for the wandering heart. 

Go, bind it with Memory's holiest spells, 
But it recks not the things of old ; 

Go, chain it in Gratitude's surest cells, 
With fetters more precious than gold ; 

Yet ever, oh ! ever, it Avill depart — 
Alas 1 for the wandering heart. 



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Is it gone up to listen at heaven's gate, 

To Gabriel's lyre of praise ? 
And to catch the deep chanting where seraplis 

Asa lesson for its mortal lays ? [wait 

O no ! for it loves from such lessons to part. 

Alas ! for the wandering heart. 

It loves on a Avorthless and treacherous world 

To bestow its high desires ; 
And the lamp which it ought to be lighting in 

It kindles at idol fires. [heaven, 

Full seldom it turns to its guiding chart — 

Alas ! for the wandering heart. 

It needs to be steeped in the briny wave 

Of affliction's billowy sea, 
And salt tears must water its way to the grave, 

Ere it will from these vanities flee. 
It must ever be feelino; the chasteninj^ smart — 

Alas ! for the wandering heart. 

My Father ! my Father ! this heart would be thine 

Restore from its wanderings ; 
Oh ! visit and nourish thy wilderness vine. 

Though it be from the bitter springs : 
Till the years of its pruning in time shall be o'er, 
And its shoots in eternity wander no more 1 



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'^RETURN' THEE TO THY REST:' 

RETURN, return thee to thine cnly rest, 
Lone pilgrim of the world ! 
Far errino; from the fold — 
By the dark night and risen storms distressed : 
I^ist, weary lamb, the Shepherd's anxious voicO; 
And once again within His arms rejoice. 

Return, return, thy fair white fleece is soiled 

And by sharp briers rent — 

Thy little strength is spent ; 
Yet He will pity thee, thou torn and spoiled. 
There, thou art cradled on His tender breast \ 
Now never more, sweet lamb, forsake that rest 

Return, return, my soul ; be like this lamb \ 

Yet can it, can it be 

That thou should'st pardon me, 
Thou injured love ! all ingrate as I am ; 
Once again, weary of earth's trifling things, 
Fako as the desert's far and shining springs ? 

R(:turn, return to thy forsaken Friend, 

So long despised, forgot — 
That now, thou wandering heart, 'twere just 

If He should " know thee not ;" 

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Yet on, press on, towards the racrcy-seat, 
And if thou perish, perish at His fiiet. 

Return, return, for He is near thee dwelling, 

And not into the air 

Need rise the sighs of prayer ; 
Into His ear thou'rt all thy sorrows telling ; 
TIiou need'st not speak to Him through spaces wide, 
For He is near thee, even at thy side. 

" liini have I pierced " — oh ! I come, I come ; 

JNIy heart is broken. Lord, 

It needs nor voice nor word ; 
One only look brought Peter back of yore 5 
How bitterly I weep as then he wept ! 
Henceforth, oh ! keep me, and I shall be kept. 



^''J^AE JESUS. 

I "WANT to live near Jesus, 
And never go astray, 
To feel that I am growing 

More like Him every day ; 
That I am always laying 
My treasure up above. 
And gaining more the spirit 
Of His gentleness and lovo. 



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I want sucli steadfl\st purpose 

My mission to fulfil, 
That it may be my meat ami drink. 

To do my Father's will, 
To follow in His footsteps. 

Who never turned aside 
From the path that leads to lujavei?^ 

Though often sorely tried. 

Oh ! that in His humility 

My spirit may be clad ! 
That I may have the patience 

My suffering Saviour had, 
A heart more disengaged 

From earth and earthl}^ things, 
\Vhich throujih life's varied trials 

To Jesus simply clings. 

Oh ! I shall live near Jesus, 

And never go astray. 
And every sin-defiling stain 

Shall soon be Avashed away ; 
And I'll bear my INIaster's image 

When I see Him face to face, 
Then earth shall lose the power 

Its briiihtness to deface. 



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WHO IS MY BROTHER '<> 



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WHO IS MY BROTHERS 

/T UST I my brother keep, 
^JL And share his pains and toil. 
And weep Avith those that weep, 

And smile with those that smile ; 
And act to each a brother's part, 
And feel his sorroAvs in my heart ? 

Must I his burden bear 

As though it were my own, 

And do as I would care 
Should to myself be done ; 

And faithful to his interests prove, 

And as myself my neiglibor leave ? 

Must I reprove his sin. 

Must I partake his grief, 
And kindly enter in 

And minister relief — 
The naked clothe, the hungry feed. 
And love him, not in Avord, but deed ? 

Then, Jesus, at Thy feet 

A student let me be, 
And learn, as it is meet, 

Myduty, Lord, of Thee; 
For Thou didst come on mercy's plan, 
And all Thy life Avas love to man. 





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PILGRIM OF EARTH. 69 

OL ! make nic as Thou art, 

Thy Spirit, Lord, bestow — 
The kind and gentle heart, 

That feels another's woe ; 
That thus I may be like my Head, 
And in my Saviour's footsteps treads 



PILGRIM OF EARTH. 

13ILGRIM of earth, who art journeying tx) 
heaven ! 
Heir of Eternal Life ! child of the day ! 
Cared for, watched over, beloved and forgiven— 
An thou discourao:ed because of the way ? 

Cared for, watched over, though often Thou seemcst 

Justly forsaken, nor counted a child ; 
Loved and forgiven, though rightly Thou dcemcst 

Thyself all unlovely, impure, and defiled. 

Weary and thirsty — no water-brook near thee, 
Press on, nor faint at the length of the way \ 

The God of thy life will assuredly hear thee — 
He will provide thee strength for the day. 

lireak through the brambles and briers that ob- 
struct thee, 
Dread not the gloom and the blackness of night 

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Lean on the hand that will safely conduct thee, 
Trust to Ills eye to whom darkness is light. 

Be trustful, be steaafast, whatever betide thee, 
Only one thing do thou ask of the Lord — 

Grace to go forward wherever lie guide thee. 
Simply believing the truth of His word. 

Still on thy spirit deep anguish is pressing, 
. Not for the }oke that His wisdom bestows: 
A heavier burden thy soul is distressing, 
A heart that is slow in His love to repose. 

ICarthlincss, coldness, unthankful behavior — 
Ah I thou maycst sorroAv, but do not despair 

Even this grief thoumayest bring to thy Saviour 
Cast upon Him e'en this burden and care ! 

ih-ing all thy hardness — His power can subdue it; 

How full is the promise ! The blessing how fr(>f' ' 
* WTiatsoever yc ask, In my name, I will do it. 

Abide in my love, and be joyful in mo." 






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" WHAT IS THIS THAT HE SAITH: A LIT- 
TLE WHILE P' 

Jonx 16 : IS. 

OH ! for the peace which floweth as a river, 
Making Life's desert-places bloom and smile. 
Oh ! for a faith to grasp heaven's briglit " for ever," 
Amid the shadows of Earth's " little while.'* 

" A little while " for patient vigil-keeping, 
To face the storm, to wrestle with the strong ; 

" A little while " to sow the seed with weeping, 
Then bind the sheaves and sinijthe harvest-son <;. 

" A little while " to wear the robe of sadness, 
To toil with weary step through erring ways; 

Then to pour forth the fragrant oil of gladness, 
And clasp the girdle of the robe of praise. 

'' A little Avhile " 'mid shadow and illusion 
To strive by faith Love's mygrterics to spell ; 

I'hou read each dark enigma's clear solution, 
Then hail Light's verdict — "He doth all things 
Avell." 

•' A little while" the earthen pitcher taking 
To Avayside brooks from far-otf fountains fed; 

Tlicn the parched lip its thirsi; for ever slaking 
Beside the fulness of the Fountain Head. 





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" A little Avhllc " to keep the oil from foiling ; 

" A little while " Faith's flickering lamp to trim 
And tlicn,thc Bridegroom's coming footstep hailing, 

To haste to meet Ilim Avith tlie bridal hvmn. 

And lie who is at once both Gift and Giver, 
Tlie future Glory, and tlie present smile. 

With the bright promise of the glad " for ever," 
Will light the shadows of the " little while." 



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IN HEAVEN. 

'• Tlielr angels do always behoUl the fiice of my Father." 

SILEXCE filled the courts of heaven, 
Hushed were seraphs' harp and tone, 
When a little new-born seraph 

Knelt before the Eternal Throne ; 
Wliile its soft white hands were lifted, 

Clasped, as if in earnest prayer. 
And its voice, in dove-like nun*murs. 

Rose nke music on the ear. 
Light from the full fount of Glory 

On his robes of whiteness glistened. 
And the bright-wmged seraphs near Ilim 

Bowed their radiant lu'ads and lisrened. 




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" J^ord, from Tliy Throne of Glory here, 
My heart turns fondly to another ; 
O Lord ! our God, the Comforter, 

Comfort, comfort, vvj siccct Mother ! 
I\[any sorrows hast Thou sent her, 

Meekly has she drained the cup ; 
And the jewels Thou hast lent her 
Unrepining yielded up. 

Comfort, comfort, my sweet Mother 1 

" Earth is crowinjx ionelv round her ; 
Friend and lover hast Thou taken ; 
Let her not, though woes surround her 

Feel herself by Tlice foi-saken. 
Let her think, when faint and Aveary, 

Wc are waitinsr for her here : 
Let each loss that makes earth dreary 
]Make the hope of heaven more dear. 
Comfort, comfort, mt/ sweet Mother I 

" Tiiou, who once in nature human, 
Dwelt on earth a little child, 
Pillowed on the breast of Woman, 

Blessed Mary ! undefiled. 
Thou Avho, from the cross of sun'eriug, 

Marked Thy ]Mothcr's tearful foce, 
And bequeathed her to Tliy loved one, 
Bidding him to fill Tliy place : 

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74 /2V JIEAVEN. 

" Thou "who once, from heaven descending, 
Tears and woes and conflicts "won : 
Thou "who, nature's laws suspending, 

Gav'st the widow back he son : 
Tliou who, at the grave of Lazarus 

AVept "With those who wept their dead : 
Thou 1 who once in mortal ancruish 
Bowed Thine own anointed head, 

Comfort, comfort, my sweet Mother f " 

The dove-like murmurs died away 

Upon the radiant air, 
But still the little suppliant knelt 

AVith hands still clasped in prayer j 
Still were those mildly-pleading eyes 

Turned to the sapphire throne, 
Till golden harp and angel voice 

Bang forth in mingled tone ; 
And as the swelling numbers flowed, 

By angel voices given, 
liich, sweet, and clear, the anthem rolled 

Through all the courts of heaven, 
■•'lie is the widow's God," it said, 

AVlio spared not " His own Son," 
J'he infant cherub bowed his head — 

" H'hy will, Lord! he doner 



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"7r 75 /; BE NOT AFRAWr 

JIatt. 14 : 37. 

TOSSED Avitli rough winds, and faint witi 
fear, 
Above the tempest, soft and clear, 
AVliat still small accents greet mine ear ? 
'Tis I ; be not afraid. 

" 'Tis I, who led thy steps aright ; 
'Tis I, who gave thy blind eyes sight ; 
'Tis I, thy Lord, thy Life, thy Light. 
'Tis I ; be not afraid. 

" These ra2:ino; winds, this surs-inir sea, 
Bear not a breath of wrath to thee ; 
That storm has all been spent on me. 
'Tis I ; be not afraid. 

" This bitter cup fear not to drink ; 
I knoAv it well — oh ! do not shrink ; 
I tasted it o'er Kedron's brink. 

'Tis I ; be not afraid. 

" Mine eyes are watching by thy bed, 
Mine arms are underneath thy head, 
My blessing is around thee shed. 
'Tis I : be not afraid. 

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" AMicn on the other side thy fecL 
Shall rest 'mid thousand welcomes sweet, 
One ■vvell-kno^Yn voice thy heart shall greet 
'Tis I ; be not afraid." 

" From out the dazzlinpj majesty, 
Gently He'll lay His hand on thee, 
"Whispering : " Beloved, lov'st thou me V 
'Twas not in vain I died for thee. 
'Tis I ; be not afraid." 



NATURE AND FAITH. 

2 Cor. 4 : 17, IS. 

WE wept — 'twas Nature wept, but Faith 
Can pierce beyond the gloom of death, 
And in yon world, so fair and bright, 
Heliold thee in refulgent light ! 
AVe miss thee here, yet FaUli would rather 
Know thou art with thy heavenly Father. 

Nature sees the body dead — 

Faith beholds the spirit lied; 

Nature stops at Jordan's tide — 

Faith beholds the other side ; 

Tliat but hears farewell and sighs, 

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Nalwc mourns a cruel blow — 
Faith assures it is not so ; 
Nature never sees thee more — 
ralth but sees thee gone before ; 
Nature tells a dismal story — 
Faith has visions full of glory ; 
Nature views the change with sadness— 
Faith contemplates it with gladness ; 
Nature mnvnwxYS— Faith gives meekness, 
i* Strength is perfected in weakness ;" 
Nature, writhes, and hates the rod — 
Faith looks up and blesses God ; 
Sense looks doAvnwards — Faith above •, 
Tliat sees harshness— //iw sees love. 
Oh ! let Faith victorious be — 
Let it reign triumphantly ! 

But thou art gone ! not lost, but flown I 
Shall I then ask thee back, my own, 
Back— and leave thy spirit's brightness ? 
Back— and leave thy robes of whiteness ? 
Back — and leave thine angel mould ? 
Back— and leave those streets of gold? 
Back — and leave the Lamb who feeds thee V 
Back— from founts to which He leads thee V 
Back — and leave thy heavenly Father V 
Back — to earth and sin ? — Nay ; rather 

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78 MY LAMBS. 



Would I live in solitude ! 
I ivoidd not ask thee if I could ; 
But patient wait the high decree, 
That calls my spirit home to thee 1 



MY LAMBS. 

I LOVED them so, 
That Avhen the Elder Shepherd of the fold 
Came, covered Avith the storm, and pale and cold. 
And begged for one of my sweet lambs to hold, 
I bade him go. 

He claimed the pet — 
A little fondling thing, that to my breast 
Clung always, either in quiet or unrest — 
I thought of all my lambs I loved him best, 

And yet — and yet — 

I laid him down 
In those white, shrouded arms, with bitter tears ; 
For some voice told me that, in after-years. 
He should know naught of passion, grief, or fears, 

As I had known. 

And yet again 
That Elder Shepherd came. My heart grew faint 

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He claimed another lamb, with sadder plaint, 
Another ! She wlio, gentle as a saint , 
Ne'er gave me pain. 

Aghast I turned away ! 
There sat she, lovely as an angel's dream, 
Her golden locks with sunlight all agleam, 
Her holy eyes with heaven in their beam. 

I knelt to pray. 

" Is it Thy will ? 
My Father, say, must this pet lamb be given ? 
Oh ! Thou hast many such, dear Lord, in heaven." 
And a soft voice said : " Nobly hast thou striven ', 

But — peace, be still." 

Oh ! how I wept, 
And clasped her to my bosom, with a wild 
And yearning love — my lamb, my pleasant child 
Her, too, I gave. The little angel smiled, 

And slept. 

"Go! go!" I cried: 
For once again that Shepherd laid His hand 
Upon the noblest of our household band. 
Like a pale spectre, there He took His stand, 

Close to his side. 

And yet how wondrous SAveet 
The look with which he heard my passionate cry ; 



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''Touch not my Inmb ; for liiin, oh ! let mc die !" 
" A little Avhile," lie said, -with smile and sigh, 
" Again to meet." 

Hopeless I fell ; 
And -when I rose, the light had burned so low, 
So faint, I could not sec my darling go : 
He had not bidden mc farewell, but oh ! 

I felt farewell 

]\Iorc deeply, far. 
Than if my arms had compassed that slight frame : 
Though could I but have heard him call my name — 
" Dear motlier !" — but in heaven 'twill be the same 5 

There burns my star ! 

He will not take 
Another lamb, I thought, for only one 
Of the dear fold is spared, to be my sun, 
My guide ; my mourner when this life is done : 

JNIy heart would break. 

Oh ! with what thrill 
t hoard Him enter; but I did not knoAV 
(For it was dark) that He had robbed me so. 
The idol of my so'.d — he could not g-J — 

O heart 1 be still ! 

Came morning. Can 1 tell 
How this poor frame its sorrowful tenant kept ? 



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MY LAMBS. 81 

For waking tears wore miTie ; I, sleeping, wept. 

And days, months, years, that weary vigil kept. 

Alas! "Farewell." 

How often it is said ! 
I sit and think, and wonder too, sometime, 
How it will seem, when, in that happier cllrac, 
It never will rino; out like funeral chime 

Over the dead. 

No tears ! no tears ! 
Will there a day come that I shall not weep ? 
For I bedew my pillow in my sleep. 
Yes, yes ; thank God ! no grief that clime shall 
keep, 

No weary years. 

Ay ! it is well : 
Well with my lambs, and Avith their earthly guide 
There, pleasant rivers wander they beside, 
Or strike sweet harps upon its silver tide — 

Ay ! it is well. 

Through the dreary day, 
Tlicy often come from glorious light to mo ; 
I cannot feel their touch, their faces see, 
Yet my soul whispers, they do come to me * 

Heaven is not far away. 



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THE CALL. 

THE niglit was dark ; behold, ilit shade was 
' deeper 
In the old garden of Gethsemano. 
When that calm voicG awoke the wea^y sleeper : ' 
" Could 'st thou not watch one hour alone with 
me?" 

O thou ! so weary of thy self-denials, 
And so impatient of thy little cross, 

Is it so hard to bear thy daily trials, 

To count all eartlily things a gainful losa ? 

What if thou always^ sutler tribulation, 
And if thy Christian warfare never cease 

The cainino- of the auiet habitation 
Shall gather thee to everlasting peace. 

But here we all must suffer, walking lonely 
The path that Jesus once Himself hath gone : 

Watch thou in patience, through the dark hour 
only— 
This one dark hour — before the eternal dawn. 

Tlie captive's oar may pause upon the galley, 
The soldier sleep beneath his plumed crest, 

And Peace may fold her wings o'er hill and valley > 
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Tliou must -walk on, however man upbraid tliee, 
With Hira who trod the wine-press all alone ; 

Thou wilt not find one human hand to aid thee, 
One humat soul to comprehend thine own. 

Heed not the images for ever thronging 
From out the foregone life thou liv'st no more. 

Faint-hearted mariner ! still art thou longing 
For the dim line of the recedinir shore ? 

Wilt thou find rest of soul in thy returning 
To that old path thou hast so vainly trod ? 

Hast thou forgotten all thy weary yearning 
To walk among the children of thy God : 

Faithful and steadfast in their consecration, 
Living by that high faith to thee so dim. 

Declaring before God their dedication, 
So far from thee because so near to Him ? 

Canst thou forget thy Christian superscrljition, 
" Behold, we count them happy which cjidurc '" ? 

What treasure wouldst thou, in the land Egyptian. 
Repass the stormy water to secure V 

And wilt thou yield thy sure and glorious ju'otnise 
For the poor, fleeting joys earth can afford ? 

No hand cari take away the treasure from us, 
That rests within the keeping of the Lord. 



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Poor, wandering soul ! I know that thou art seek- 
ing 

Some easier way, as all have sought before, 
To silence the reproachful inward speaking — 

Some landward path unto an island shore. 

The cross is heavy in thy luunan measure, 
The way too narroAv for thine inward pride ; 

Thou canst not lay thine intellectual treasure 
At the low footstool of the Crucified. 

Oh ! that my faithless soul, one great hour only, 
"Would comprehend the Christian's perfect life 

Despised with Jesus, sorrowful and lonely. 
Yet calmly looking upAvard in its strife ! 

For poverty and self-renunciation. 

The Father yielded back a thousand-fold ^ 

Li the calm stillness of regeneration, 
Cometh a joy we never knew of old. 

In meek obedience to the heavenly Teacher, 
Thy weary soul can find its only peace ; 

Seeking no aid from any human creature — 
Looking to God alone for his release. 

And He will come in His own time and power 
To set His earnest-hearted children free : 

W^itch only through this dark and painful hour, 
And the briiiht mornino- vet will break for thee 



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GOD'S ANVIL. 

PAIR'S furnacc-hcat "within me quivers, 
God's breath upon the fire doth blow, 
And all my heart in anguish shivers, 

And trembles at the fiery glow ; 
And yet I whispei\ "As God will!" 
And in Ilis hottest fire hold still. 

He comes, and lays my heart, all heated, 

On the bare anvil, minded so 
Into His own fair shape to beat it, 

With His great hammer, blow on blow ; 
And yet I whisper, "As God will !" 
And at His heaviest blows hold still. 

He takes ray softened heart, and beats it. 

The sparks fly off at every blow. 
He turns tt o'er and o'er, and heats it, 

And lets it cool, and makes it glow : 
And yet I whisper, "As God will I " 
And in His mighty hand hold still. 

Why should I murmur ? for the sorrow 
Thus only longer-lived would be ; 

Its end may come, and will, to-morrow, 
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And, trusting to the end, hold still. 

He kindles, for my profit purely. 
Affliction's glowing, jQery brand ; 

And all His heaviest blows are surely 
Inflicted by a master-hand; 

So 1 say, praying, "As God will ! " 

And hope in Him, and sufler still. 



THE CROSS AND CROWN. 

MUST Jesus bear the cross alone, 
And all the world go free ? 
i^o ; there's a cross for every one, 
And there's a cross for me. 

How happy are the saints above, 
Who once went sorrowing here, 

But now they taste unmingled lovo 
x\nd joy without a tear. 

The consecrated cross Til bear, 
Till death shall set me free ; 

And then go home, my crown to wear, 
For there's a crow n for me. 



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EVEir ME. S*l 



Upon the crystal pavement, down 

At Jesus' pierced feet, 
Jojful I'll cast my golden crown, 

And His dear name repeat ; 

And palms shall wave, and harps shall ring, 
Beneath heaven's arches high ; 

Tlie Lord that lives, the ransomed sing, 
That lives no more to die. 



EVJEN ME. 

LORD ! I hear of showers of blessing 
Thou art scattering, full and free ; 
Showers the thirsty soul refreshing — 
Let some droppings fall on me. 

Even me. 

Pass me not, O gracious Father ! 

Lost and sinful though I be ; 
Thou mightst curse me, but the rather 

Let Thy mercy light on me. 

Even rao. 

Pass me not, O tender Saviour ! 
Let me love and cling to Thee ; 








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EVEN' ME. 



Fain I'm longing for Thy favor; 
When Thou callest, call for me, 

Even nie. 

Pass me not, O mighty Spirit ! 

Thou canst make the blind to see; 
Testify of Jesus' merit, 

Speak the word of peace to me, 

Even me. 

Have I long in sin been sleeping, 
Long been slighting, grieving Thee ? 

lias the world my heart been keeping ? 
Oh ! forgive and rescue me, 

Even me. 

Love of God ! so pure and changeless ; 

Love of Christ ! so rich and free ; 
Grace of God ! so strono; and boundless 

Magnify it all in me, 

Even mc. 

Pass me not, almighty Spirit ! 

Draw this lifeless heart to Thee ; 
Impute to me the Saviour's merits ; 

Blessing others, oh ! bless me, 

Even me. 



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TB^ PEACE OF GOD. 89 



MY SAVIOUR, CRUCIFIED. 

OMY Saviour, crucified ! 
Near Thy cross may I abide ; 
There to gaze, with steadfast eye, 
On Tiiy d}ang agony. 

Jesus, bruised and put to shame, 
Tells me all the Father's name 5 
God is love, I surely know, 
By my Saviour's depths of woe I 

in Ills sinless soul's distress, 
[ behold my guiltiness ; 
Oh ! how vile my low estate, 
Since my ransom was so great. 

Dwelling on Mount Calvary, 
Contrite shall my spirit be ; 
Rest and holiness shall find, 
Fashioned like my Saviour's mind. 



THE PEACE OF COD. 

WE ask for peace, O Lord ! 
Thy children ask Thy peace ; 
Not what the world calls rest. 
That toil and care should ceaso. 



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90 THE PEACE OF GOD. 



That through bright sunny hours, 

Cahii life should fleet away, 
And tranquil night should fade 

In smiling day. 
It is not for such peace that we would pray. 

We ask for peace, O Lord ! 

Yet not to stand secure, 
Girt round with iron pride, 

Contented to endure ; 
Crushing the gentle strings 

That human hearts should know ; 
Untouched by others' joys, 

Or others' woe. 
Thou, O dear Lord ! wilt never teach us so. 

We ask Thy peace, O Lord ! 

Through storm and fear and strife, 
To lio'ht and guide us on 

Through a long, struggling life ; 
While no success or gain 

Shall cheer the desperate fight, 
Or nerve what the world calls 

Our wasted might ; 
Yet pressing through the darkness to the light. 

It is Thine own, O Lord ! 
Who toil while others sleep ; 

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PEACE. 

Wlio sow, with living care, 

Wliat other hands shall reap ; 
They lean on Thee, entranced 

In calm and perfect rest ; 
Give us that peace, O Lord I 

Divine and blest, 
Thou keepest for those hearts that love Thco 

[best. 




PEA G E. 

LIFE'S mystery — deep, restless as the ocean- 
Hath surged and wailed for ages to and 
fro ; 
Ji^arth's generations watch its ceaseless motion, 

As in and out its hoUoAV moanings flow. 
Shivering and yearning by that unknown sea, 
Let my soul calm itself, O God ! in Thee. 

Life's sorrows, with inexorable power, 
Sweep desolation o'er this mortal plain ; 

And human loves and hopes fly as the chaff 
Borne by the v/hirlwind from the ripened grain 

Oh ! when before that blast my hopes all flee, 

Let my soiil calm itself, O Christ ! in Thee. 

Between the mysteries of death and Yi^Q 

Thou standest, loving, guiding, not explaining ; 



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92 PEAOE. 

We ask, and thou art silent ; yut wc gaze, 

And our charmed hearts forget their drear com- 
plaining. ' 
No crushing fate, no stony destiny. 
Thou " Lamb that hath been slain I" avc rest in 
Thee. 

The many waves of thought, the mighty tides, 
The ground-swell that rolls up from other lands, 

From far-off worlds, from dim, eternal shores, 
Whose echo dashes o'er life's wave- worn strands ; 

This vague, dark tumult of the inner sea 

Grows calm, grows bright, O risen Lord ! in Thee. 

Thy pierced hand guides the mysterious wheels. 
Thy thorn-crowned brow now wears the croAvn 
of power ; 
And when the dark enigma presseth sore. 

Thy patient voice saith : " Watch with me one 
hour." 
As sinks the moaning river in the sea, 
lu silent peace, so sinks my soul in Thee. 







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PRATER FOR STREKGTE. 93 



FBAYER FOR STRENGTH. 

lATHER ! before thy footstool kneelluor, 
Once more my heart goes up to Thee ; 
For aid, for strength, to Thee appealing, 
Thou who alone canst succor me. 

Hear me ! for heart and flesh are failing — 

My spirit yielding in the strife ; 
And anguish, wild as unavailing. 

Sweeps in a flood across my life. 

Help me to stem tlio tide of sorrow ; 

Help me to bear Thy chastening rod ; 
Give me endurance ; let me borrow 

Strength from thy promise, O my God ! 

Not mine the grief which words may lighten ; 

Not mine the tears of common woe : 
The pang Avith which my heart-strings tighten, 

Only the All-seeing One may know. 

And I am weak ; my feeble spirit 
Shrinks from life's task in wild dismay : 

Yet not that Thou that task wouldst spare it, 
My Father, do I dare to pray. 

Into my soul Thy might infusing. 

Strengthening my spirit by Thine owu, 



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94 PRAYER FOR STRENGTH. 



llel}) me — all other aid refusing — • 
To cling to Thee, and Thee alone. 

And oh ! in my exceeding weakness, 
Make Thy strength perfect: Thou art strong 

Aid me to do Thy will with meekness. 
Thou, to whom all my powers belong. 

Saviour ! our human form once wearing, 
Help, by the memory of that day, 

When, painfully Thy dark cross bearing, 
E'en for a time Thy strength gave way. 

Beneath a lighter burden sinking, 

Jesus, I cast myself on Thee ; 
Forgive, forgive this useless shrinking 

From trials that I know must be. 

Oh ! let me feel that Thou art near me, 
Close to Thy side I shall not fear. 

Hear me, O Strength of Israel ! hear mo ; 
Sustain and aid 1 in mercy, hear ! 



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ONWARD. 95 



ONWARD. 

TRAVELER, faint not on the road, 
Droop not In the parching sun ; 
Onward, onward with thy load, 

Till the night be won. 
Swerve not, though thy bleeding feet 
Fain the narrow path would leave ; 
From the burden and the heat, 
Thou shalt rest at eve. 

Midst a world that round thee fades, 

Brightening stars and twilight life ; 
When a sacred calm pervades 

All that now is strife ; 
Rich the joy to be revealed 

In that hour from labor free, 
Bright the splendors that shall yield 

Happiness to thee. 

Master of a holy charm, 

Yet be patient on thy way ; 
Use the spell, and check the harm 

That would lead astray. 
From the petty cares that teem, 

Turn thee, with prophetic eyo, 
To the glory of that dream 

Which shall never die. 



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96 ORIEF WAS SENT THEE FOR THY GOOD. 



Bj the uiysteiy of thy trust ; 

By the grandeur of that hour 
When mortality and dust 

Clothed eternal power ; 
By the purple robe of shame, 

The mockery, and the insulting rod ; 
By the anguish that o'crcame 

The incarnate God : 

Faint not ! fall not ! be thou strong, 

Cast aAvay distrust and fear; 
Though the weary day seems long, 

Yet the night is near. 
Friends and kindred wait beyond — 

They who passed the trial pure : 
Traveler, by that holy bond, 

Shrink not to endure. 



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GRIEF WAS SENT THEE FOR THY GOOD 

SOME there are who seem exempted 
From the doom incurred by all : 
Are they not more sorely tempted ? 

Are they not the first to fall ? 
-tVs a mother's firm denial 

Checks her infant's wayward mood, 
Wisdom lurks in every trial — 
Grief was sent thee for thy good. 




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SCENES " OiV JOBDAN'S STRAND.'' 97 



In the scenes of former pleasure, 

Present anguish hast thou felt ; 
O'er thy fond heart's dearest treasure, 

As a mourner, hast thou knelt : 
In thy hour of deep affliction, 

Let no impious thoughts intrude : 
Meekly bow, with this conviction — 

Grief was sent thee for thy good. 



SCENES " ON JORDAN'S STRANDS 

THERE came a little child, with sunny hair, 
All fearless to the brink of Death's dark 
river, 
And with a sweet confiding in the care 

Of Him who is of life the Joy and Giver ; 
And, as upon the waves she left our sight, 
We heard her say: "My Saviour makes them 
briiiht." 



Next came a youth, with bearing most serene, 
Nor turned a single backward look of sadness ; 

But, as he left each gay and flowery scene, 

Smiling declared: "My soul Is thrilled with 
gladness ! 




98 SCENES " (?iyr JOBDAN'S STIiAI^D.' 



"Wliat earth deems bright, for ever I resign. 
Joyful but this to kiiOTV, that Christ is miiK." 

An aged mourner, trembling, tottered by, 
And paused a moment by the swelling river 

Then glided on beneath the shadowy sky. 
Singing : " Christ Jesus is my strength for evei * 

Upon His arm my feeble soul I lean. 

My glance meets His, without a cloud between." 

And scarce her last triumphant note had died. 
Ere hastened on a man of wealth and learning, 

Who cast at once his bright renown aside, 
These only words unto his friends returning 

" Christ for my Wisdom thankfully I own. 

And as ' a little child' I seek His throne." 



Then saw I this : that, whether guileless child. 
Or youth, or age, or genius, won salvation, 

Each self-renouncing came ; on each God smiled; 
Each found the love of Christ rich compensation 

For loss of friends, earth's pleasures, and renown ; 

Each entered heaven, and " by His side sat down." 






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THERE IS LIOUT BEYOND. 99 



THERE IS LIGHT BEYOND. 

BEYOND the stars that shiiic in golden gloiy, 
Beyond the calm sweet moon, 
Up the bright ladder sahits have trod before thee. 

Soul ! thou shalt venture soon. 
Secure with llini who sees thy hcart-slck yearning, 

Safe in His arms of love, 
'.riiou shalt exchange the midnight for the morning, 
And thy fair home above. 

Oh ! it is sweet to watch the world's night wearing 

The Sabbath morn come on, 
And sweet it were the vineyard labor sharing — 

Sweeter the labor done. 
All finished ! all the conflict and the sorrow , 

Earth's dream of anguish o'er ; 
Deathless there dawns for thee anightless morrow 

On Eden's blissful shore. 

Tatience ! then, patience ! soon the pang of dying 

Shall all forgotten be. 
And thou, through rolling spheres rejoicing, Hying 

Beyond tlie w.-weless sea, 



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THERE IS LTGUT BEYOND. 




Sliall know liereaOci- wlicrc lliy Lord doth leid 
thee, 
His darkest dealings traee 
And by those ibuntalns where His love Avill feed 
tlicc-, 
liehold Hint face to face. 



Then bow thine liead, and God shall j^Ive thoo 
meekness, 

Bravely to do His will ; 
So shall arise His ^loiy in thy weakness — 

O stru^olinL:; sonl ! be still. 
Daik clonds are His paAilion shining o'er thee, 

'J'hinc! heart must recognize 
The veiled ISheehinah moving on before thee, 

Too bright to meet thine eyes. 



Behold the -wheel that straightly moves, and lleetly 

]*erlbrms the Sovereign Word ; 
Tiiou know'st His snllerlni; love ! then sulleriniz 
meekly, 

Follow thy loving Lord 1 
AVateh on tlie tower, and listen by the gateway, 

Nor weej) to wait alone ; 
Take thou thy spiees, and some angel straightway 

Shall roll awav the stone. 



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Then sljalt thou tell thy llvliii; Lord 1 ath risen, 

And risen but to save ; 
Tell of the might that breaks the Cai:)tive's prison, 

And life beyond the grav<> I 
Tell how He met thee, all Ills radlanee shrouded^ 

I low in thy sorrow came 
His pitying voice breathing, Avlien laitli was 
elouded, 

Thine own familiar name. 

So at the grave's dark portal thou may'st linger, 

And hynm some happy strain ; 
The passing world may mock the feeble singer — 

Heed not, l)ut siuir a<rain. 
Thus wait, thus Avateh, till He the last link sever, 

And changeless rest be won ; 
Then in His glory thou slialt bask for ever, 

Fear not the clouds — phess on 1 



''THY WILL BE BONEr 

FOUR little Avords, no more — 
Easy to say ; 
But thoughts that Avent before, 
Can Avords (;oiivey ? 



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102 '•' TEY WILL BE BONE.-" 

The struggle, only known 

To one proud soul, 
And Him whose eye alone 

Has marked the whole. 

Before that stubborn will 
At length was broke, 

And a low " Peace, be still !" 
One soil Voice spoke ; 

The pang, when that sad heart 

Its dreams resigned, 
And strength was found, to part 

Those bonds long twined. 

To yield that treasure up, 

So fondly clasped, 
To drain that bitter cup, 

So sadly grasped ! 

But all is calm at last, 
" Thy will be done !" 

Enough, the storm Is past, 
The field is won. 

Now for the peaceful breast, 

The quiet sleep ; 
For soul and spirit rest, 

Tranquil and deep. 



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THEY SHALL BE MINE I 



Rest, whose full bliss and power 

They only know, 
"Who knew the bitter hour 

Of restless woe. 

The rebel will subdued — 
The fond heart free — 
" Thy will be done !'* — all good 
That comes from Thee. 

All weary thought and care, 

Lord, we resign ; 
Ours is to do, to bear, 

To choose is thine. 

Four little words, no more — 

Easy to say ; 
But what was felt before, 

Can words convey ? 



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THEY SHALL BE MINE! 

" rpHEY shall be mine!" Oh I lay Ihcra 
_L down to slumber, 

Calm in the strong assurance that lie gives ; 
He calls them by their names. He knows their 
number. 
And they shall live as surely as He lives. 




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104 THEY SHALL BE MINE I 




" They shall be mine !" upraised from earthlj 
pillows, 
Gathered from desert sand, from mountains 
cold — 
Called from the graves beneath old ocean's billows, 
Called from each distant land, each scattered 
fold. 

Well might the soul, that wondrous spark of 
being. 

Lit by His breath who claims it for His own. 
Shine in the circle which His love foreseeing, 

Destined to glitter brightest by His throne. 

But shall the dust from earthly dust first taken 
And now long mingled with its native earth. 

To life, to beauty, once again aAvaken, 

Thrill with the rapture of a second birth ? 

" They shall be mine !" they, as on earth we knew 
them — 

The lips we kissed, the hands Ave loved to press — 
Only a fuller life be circling through them, 

Unfading youth, unchanging holiness. 

" They shall be mine !" children of sin and sorrow 
Giv'st Thou, O Lord 1 heaven's almost verge to 
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No ; from cacL rifled grave Thy crown sliaU 
borrow 
An added light — a prized and costly gem. 

They shall be mine !" Thought falls and feeling 

falters, 
Striving to sound and fathom love divine ; 
All that we know — no time Thy promise alters — 
All that we trust, our loved ones shall be Thine. 



LEAVE ME NOT NOW. 

LEAVE me not now, while still the shade is 
creeping 
O'er the sad heart that longs to rest In Thee *, 
Hear my complaint, and v/hlle my soul Is weeping, 
Breathe Thou the holy dew of sympathy. 

Leave me not now. Thou Saviour of compassion. 
While yet the busy tempter lurketh near ; 

Lord, by Thine anguish and Thy wond'rous passion, 
Do I entreat Thee now to llnf^er here. 

Jesus, Thou soul of love, Thou heart of feeling, 
Let me repose the weary night away 

Safe on Thy bosom, all my woes revealing, 
Secure from danger, till the dawn of day. 




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106 FAITH S REPOSE. 

Then leave me not, O Comforter and Father, 

Parent of love ! I live but in Thy sight ; 
Good Shepherd, to Thy fold the wand'rer gather, 

There to adore Thee, morning, noon, and night. 




FAITH'S REPOSE. 

FATHER, beneath Thy sheltering wing, 
In sweet security we rest, 
And fear no evil earth can bring, 
In life, in death, supremely blest. 

For life is good, whose tidal flow 
The motions of Thy will obeys ; 

And death is good, that makes us know 
The Love Divine that all things sways. 

And good it is to bear the cross. 
And so Thy perfect peace to win ; 

And naught is ill, nor brings us loss, 
Nor works us harm, save only sin. 

Redeemed from this, we ask no more, 
But trust the love that saves to guide — 

The grace that yields so rich a store, 
"Will grant us all we need beside. 



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THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS. 

I SEE tliem far away, 
111 their calm beauty, on tlie evening skies, 
Across the golden west their summits rise, 

Bright with the radiance of departing day. 
And often, ere the sunset light was gone. 
Gazing and longing, I have hastened on, 
As with new strength, all weariness and pain 
Forgotten in the hope those blissful heights to gain. 

Heaven lies not far beyond. 
But these are hills of earth, our changeful air 
Circles around them, and the dwellers there 

Still own mortality's mysterious bond. 
The ceaseless contact, the continued strife, 
Of sin and grace, wliich can but close with life, 
Is not yet ended, and the Jordan's roar 
Still sounds between their path and the Celestial 
shore. 

But there, the pilgrims say. 
On these calm heights, the tumult and the noiso 
Of all our busy cares and restless joys 

Has almost in the distance died away ; 
All the past journey " a right way " appears. 
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And tlirougb tlie clouds, to their rejoicing eyes, 
The city's golden streets and pearly gates arise. 

Courage, poor fainting heart ! 
These happy ones in the far distance seen 
Were sinful wanderers once, as thou hast been, 

AVeary and sorroAvful, as now thou art. 
Linger no longer on the lonely plain, 
Press boldly onward, and thou too shalt gain 
Their vantage-ground, and then, with vigor new, 
All thy remaining race and pilgrimage pursue. 

Ah ! far too faint, too poor 
Are all our views and aims — we only stand 
Within the borders of the promised land, 

Its precious things we seek not to secure ; 
And thus our hands hang down, and oft unstrung 
Our harps are left the willow-trees among . 
Lord, lead us forward, upward, till we know 
How much of heavenly bliss may be enjoyed be- 
low. 



" And then, said they, we will, if the day be clear, show you 

the Delectable Mountains So he looked, and behold, at a 

great distance he saw a most pleasant mountainous country, 
.... very delectable to behold, .... and it ia as common, said 
they, as this hill is, to and for all the pilgrims. And when thou 
comest there, from thence thou mayest see to the gate of the 
Celestial City }''—Bunyan. 



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TEE ANCHOR WITHIN THE VEIL. 109 



THE ANCHOR WITHIN THE VEIL, 

AMID the shadows and the fears 
That overcloud this home of tears, 
Amid my poverty and sin, 
The tempest and the war within, 
I east my soul on Thee, 
Mighty to save e'en me, 
Jesus, Thou Son of God I 

Drifting across a sunless sea. 
Cold, heavy mist, encurtaining me ; 
Toiling along life's broken road, 
With snares around, and foes abroad, 
I cast my soul on Thee, 
Mghty to save e'en me, 
Jesus, Thou Son of God ! 

Mine is a day of fear and strife, 

A needy soul, a needy hfe, 

A needy world, a needy age ; 

Yet, in my perilous pilgrimage, 
I cast my soul on Thee, 
Mighty to save e'en me, 
Jesus, Thou Son of God 1 







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THE ANCEOR WITHIK TEE VEIL. 



To Thee I come — ah I only Thou 
Canst wipe the sweat from off this brow 
Thou, only Thou, canst make me whole, 
And soothe the fever of my soul ; 

I cast my soul on Thee, 

IMighty to save e'en me, 

Jesus, Thou Son of God 1 

On Thee I rest — Thy love and grace 
Are my sole rock and resting-place ; 
In Thee my thu-st and hunger sore, 
Lord, let me quench for evermore. 

I cast my soul on Thee, 

Mighty to save e'en me, 

Jesus, Thou Son of God ! 

'Tis earth, not heaven ; 'tis night, not noon ', 
The sorrowless is coming soon ; 
But, till the morn of love aj)pears. 
Which ends the travail and the tears, . 

I cast my soul on Thee, 

IVIighty to save e'en me, 

Jesus, Thou Son of God ! 



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GOD'S WAYS. 

HOAV few v/ho from their youthful day 
Look on to what their life may be, 
Painting the visions of tlie way 

In colors soft, and bright, and free ; 
How few who to such paths have brought 
The hopes and dreams of early thought I 
For God, through ways they have not known, 
AVill lead His own. 

The eager hearts, the sovils of fire 
Who pant to toil for God and man. 

And view with eyes of keen desire 
The upland way of toil and pain ; 

Almost with scorn they think of rest. 

Of holy calm, of tranquil breast ; 

But God, through ways they have not known, 
Will lead His own. 

A lowlier task on them is laid, 

With love to make the labor light , 

And then their beauty they must shed, 
On quiet homes and lost to sight. 

Changed are their visions high and fair, 

Yet calm and still they laUor there ; 

For God, through ways they have not kno\Yn, 
Will lead His own. 




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GOD'S WAYS. 



The gcnllc heart that thinks witli pain 

It iScarcc can h)wliest tasks fulfil, 
And if it darcMl its life to scan 

Wcjiild ask liiit palJiwMy Idw and still" 
Often such lowly heail is hron^jlit 
To act with power beyond its th(ju;;ht ; 
For God, throu^^h ways they have not knoun, 
Will lead His own. 

And they tlu; bright, who lon;^ to prove 

In joyons path, in cloudless lot. 
How fn^sh from ear'th their ^ratcifnl love 

(Jan spriiiL^ without a stain or s[)ot ; 
()ft(Mi such youlliful heart is given 
The path of grief to walk to heaven ; 
For (Jod, thi'ough ways they ]iav(i not known, 
AV'ill lead His <;wn. 

What matter Avhat th(i ])ath shall be V 
The end is clear and bright to view : 

He knows that we a strength shall see 
Whate'cr the day shall bring to do: 

We Be(j the end, the house of (iod, 

liut not the path to that alnxhi ; 

For (jod, through ways tJniy hav(5 not known, 
Will lead His own. 



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nisiTRACTiom IX rnAYh'R. 

I CANNOT pniy; yet Loi-d, Ihoii kiiow'st. 
IMio ])<'iin It is to nui, 
To have my vainly strn^<ji;Iiii<^ (hotiglils 
'I'lius toi'ii away rroiii Tlirc. 

Prayer was not meant for liixiuy 

Of sclfisli pastime sweet ; 
-It is the prostrate creature's i)laco 

At his Creator's feet. 

H;ul I, (h'ar Fiord, no ])leasMi*<> found 

Hilt in th(», thoughts of Thee, 
J'rayer would liavc couu^ nnsou^^ht, and .leon 

A truer liberty. 

Yet U'liou art oft most present, Lord, 

In weak distra(!ted prayctr ; 
A sinner out of heart with self, 

Most often fnids Thee there. 



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And i)rayer that humbles sets tho scul 

From all illusions fn^e, 
And teaehes it how utterly, 

Dear I^ord, it han<^s on Thee. 



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MT GUEST. 



The soul that on self-sacrifice 

Is dutifully bent, 
Will bless the chasteninsj Land that makes 

Its prayer its punishment. 

Ah, Jesus ! "why should I complain ? 

And why fear aught but sin ? 
Distractions are but outward things ; 

Thy peace dwells far within ! 

These surface troubles come and go 

Like rufflings of the sea ; 
The deeper depth is out of reach 

To all, my God, but Thee ! 



MY GUEST. 

HAVE a wonderful Guest, 
Who speeds my feet, who moves my hands, 
Wlio strengthens, comforts, guides, commands, 
Whose presence gives me rest. 

He dwells within my soul ; 

He swept away the filth and gloom, 
He garnished fair the empty room, 

And now pervades the whole. 




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For aye, by day and night, 
He keeps the portal — suffers naught 
Defile the temple He has bought, 

And filled with joy and light. 

Once 'twas a cavern dim ; 
The home of evil thoughts, desii'cs, 
Enkindled by infernal fires, 

"Without one thought of Him. 

Regenerated by His grace, 
Still 'tis a meagre inn, at best, 
"Wherein the Iving's to make His rest, 

And show His glorious face. 

Yet, Saviour, ne'er depart 
From this poor earthly cottage home. 
Until the Father bid me come, 

"Whisp'rlng within my heart : 

"I shake these cottage walls ; 
Fear not ! at My command they bow ; 
My heavenly mansions open now, 

As this poor dwelling falls." 

Then my dear wondrous Guest 
Shall bear me on His own right Iiand 
Unto that fair and Promised Land, 

"Where I in Him shall rest. 




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116 COMING. 



COMING. 

At even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or iu the 
morning." 

k i "|~T may be in the evening, 

_1_ Wlien the ■work of the day is done, 
And you have time to sit in the twilight 

And watch the sinking sun, 
While the long bright day dies sloAvly 

Over the sea, 
And the hour grows quiet and holy 

With thoughts of nie ; 
Vvliile you hear tlie village children 

Passing along the street, 
Among those thronging footstcjDS 

May come the sound of my feet 
Therefore I tell you : Watch 

By the light of the evening star, 
When the room is growing dusky 

As the clouds afar ; 
Let the door be on the latch 

In your home. 
For it may be through the gloaming 

I will come. 



" It may be when the midnight 
Is heavy upon the land, 



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COMING. 117 



./iViid ilic black waves lying dumbly 

Along tlie sand ; 
AVhen the moonless night draws close, 
And the lights are out in the house ; 
When the fires burn low and red, 
And the watch is ticking loudly 

Beside the bed : 
Though you sleep, tired out, on your couch, 
Still your heart must wake and watch 

In the dark room, 
For it may be that at midnight 

I will come. 

" It may be at the cock-crow, 
When the night is dying slowly 

In the sky, 
And the sea looks calm and holy, 

Waitinrj for the dawn 

Of the golden sun 

Which draweth nigh ; 
When the mists are on the valleys, shailing 

The rivers chill. 
And my morning-star is fading, fading 

Over the hill : 
Behold I say unto you ; Watch 5 
Let the door be on the latch 

In your home ; 
In the chill before the dawning. 




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318 GOMINO. 

Between the niglit and morning, 
I may come. 

" Jt may be in the morning, 

When the sun is bright and strong 
And the dew is glittering sharply 

Over the little lawn ; 
When the waves are laughing loudly 

Along the shore, 
And the little birds are singing sweetly 

About the door ; 
With the long day's work beiore yon, 

You rise uj) with the sun. 
And the neighbors come in to talk a little 

Of all that must be done, 
But remember that / may be ihe next 

To come in at the door, 
To call you from all your busy work 

For evermore : 
As you work your heart must watch 
For the door is on the latch 

In your room. 
And it may be in the morning 

I will come." 

So He passed down my cottage garden. 
By the path that leads to the sea, 



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Till He came to the turn of the little road 
Where the birch and laburnum tree 

Lean over and arch the way ; 

There I saw him a moment stay, 
And turn once more to me, 
As I wept at the cottage door, 

And lift up His hands in blessing — 
Then I saw His face no more. 



And I stood stiU in the doorway, 

Leaning against the wall. 
Not heedinjc the fair white roses, 

Though I crushed them and let them fall 
Only looking down the pathway , 

And looking toward the sea, 
And wondering, and wondering 

When He would come back for me ; 
Till I was aware of an Angel 

Who was going swiftly by. 
With the gladness of one who goeth 

In the light of God Most High. 



lie passed the end of the cottage 
Toward the garden gate — 
(I suppose he was come down 
At the setting of the sun 



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To comfort some one in the village 

Whose dwelling was desolate) — 
And he paused before the door 

Beside my place, 
And the likeness of a smile 

Was on his face : 
" Weep not," he said, " for unto you is given 

To watch for the coming of His feet 
Who is the glory of our blessed heaven ; 

The work and watching will be very 
sweet, 

Even in an earthly home ; 
And in such an iiour as you think not 

He will come." 



So I am watcliing quietly 

Every day. 
Whenever the sun shines brightly, 

I rise and say : 
" Surely it is the shining of His face !" 

And look unto the gates of His high place 

Beyond the sea ; 
For I know He is coming shortly 

To summon me. 
And when a shadoAv falls across the window 

Of my room, 
WTierc I am working my appointed task. 



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I lif^ my liead to watch the door and ask 

If He is come ; 
And the Angel answers sweetly 

In my home : 
" Only a few more shadows, 

And He will come." 



A QUIET MIND. 

I HAVE a treasm-e which I prize ^ 
Its like I cannot find : 
There's nothing like it on the earth ; 
'Tis this — a quiet mind. 

But 'tis not that Fm stupefied, 

Or senseless, dull, or blind ; 
'Tis God's own peace within my heart, 

Which forms my quiet mind. 

I found this treasure at the cross : 

And there, to every kind 
Of weary, heavy-laden souls, 

Christ gives a quiet mind. 

My Saviour's death and risen life, 

To give it were designed ; 
His love, the never-failing spring 

Of this, my quiet mind. 

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122 * A QUIET MIND. 



ITie love of God witliin my breast^, 
My heart to Him doth bind ; 

This is the peace of heaven on earth— 
This is my quiet mind. 

I've many a cross to take up now, 

And many left behind ; 
But present troubles move me not, 

Nor shake my quiet mind. 

And what may be to-morrow's cross, 

I never seek to find ; 
My Saviour says : " Leave that to mo, 

And keep a quiet mind." 

And well I know the Lord hath said, 
To make my heart resigned, 

That mercy still shall follow those 
A^V ho have this quiet mind. 

J meet with pride of wit and wealtli, 
And scorn, and looks unkind ; 

It matters not — ^I envy none. 
While I've a quiet mind. 

I'm waiting now to see my Lord, 

So patient and so kind ; 
I want to thank Ilim face to face. 

For this my quiet mind. 



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ALL IS LIGHT. 
"TXyilAT though storm-clouds gather round 

Hovering darkly o'er my way ? 
While I see the cross of Calvary 
Beaming with celestial ray, 
All is light, all is light ! 

What though mortal powers may falter ? 

Earthly plans and prospects fail ? 
With a heaven-born hope which entcrcth 

E'en to that within the veil, 
All is light, all is light ! 

'SVTiat though all my future pathway 

Be from mortal sight concealed? 
With the love of Jesus glowing, 

As it lies to faith revealed. 
All is light, all is light ! 

E'en though death's deep vale before me 
Seem o'erspread with thickest gloom, 

>Miile I see a heavenly radiance 
Bursting from beyond the tomb, 
All is light, all is light I 



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L N GIN QS. 

WHEN shall I be at rest? My trembling 
heart 
GroAvs weary of its burden, sickening still 
With hopes deferred. Oh ! that it were Thy 
will 
To loose my bonds, and take me where Thou art ! 

When shall I be at rest ? My eyes grow dim 
With straining through the gloom ; I scarce can 

see 
The waymarks that my Saviour left for me. 

Would it were morn, and I were safe with Him 1 

When shall I be at rest ? Hand over hand 
I grasp, and climb an ever steeper hill, 
A rougher path. Oh ! that it were Thy will 

My tired feet might tread the Promised Land ! 

Oh ! that I were at rest ! A thousand fears 
Come thronging o'er me, lest I fall at last. 
Would I were safe, all toil and danger past, 

And Thine own hands might wipe away my teais. 

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Oh ! that I were at rest, like some I love, 
Whose last fond looks drew half my life away, 
Sceminf^ to plead that either they might stay 

A7ith me on earth, or I with them above. 

But why these murmurs ? Thou didst never 
shrink 
From any toil or weariness for me — 
Not even from that last deep agony. 

Shall I beneath my little trials sink ? 

No, Lord ; for when I am indeed at rest, 
One taste of that deep bliss will quite efiaco 
The sternest memories of my earthly race, 

Save but to swell the sense of beino- blest. 

Then lay on me whatever cross I need 

To bring me there. I know Thou canst not be 
Unkind, unfaithful, or untrue to me 1 

Shall I not toil for Thee, when Thou for me didst 
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BRID G ES. 

I HAVE a bridge within my heart, 
Known as the Bridge of Sighs ; 
It stretches from life's sunny part, 
To where its darkness lies. 

And when upon this bridge I stand, 

To watch life's tide below, 
Sad thoughts come from the shadowy land 

And darken all its flow. 

Then, as it winds its way along 

To sorrow's bitter sea, 
Oh ! mournful is the spirit-song 

That upwaid floats to me. 

A song which breathes of blessings dead, 
Of friends and friendships flown ; 

And pleasures gone ! — their distant tread, 
Now to an echo grown. 

And hearing thus, beleaguering fears 

Soon shut the present out. 
While joy but in the past appears, 

And in the future doubt. 

Oh 1 often then will deeper grow, * 

The night that round me lies ^ 
I wish that Hfe had run its flow, 

Or never found its rise ! 




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I have a bridge within my heart, 
Known as the Bridge of Faith ; 

It spans, by a mysterious art. 
The streams of life and death. 

And when upon this bridge I stand, 

To watch the tide below. 
Sweet thoughts come from the sunny land, 
• And brighten all its flow. 

Then, as it winds its way along 

Down to a distant sea. 
Oh ! pleasant is the spirit-song 

That upward floats to me. 

A song of blessings never sere, 

Of love " beyond compare," 
Of pleasures flowed from troublings hero, 

To rise serenely there. 

And, hearing thus, a peace divine 

Soon shuts each sorrow out ; 
And all is hopeful and benign, 

Where all was fear and doubt. 

Oh I often then will brighter grow 

The light that round me lies , 
I see from life's beclouded flow 

A crystal stream arise. 




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''FATHER, TAKE MY RAN Br 

THE way is dark, my Fathei- ! Cloud on cloud 
Is gathering thickly o'er my head, and loud 
The thunders roar above me. See, I stand 
Like one bewildered ! Father, take my hand, 
And through the gloom 
Lead safely home 
Thy child ! 

The day goes flist, my Father ! and the night 
Is drawing darkly down. My faithless sight 
Sees ghostly visions. Fears, a spectral band, 
Encompass me. O Father 1 take my hand. 

And from the night 

Lead up to light 
Thy child ! 

The way is long, my Father ! and my soul 
Longs for the rest and quiet of the goal : 
While yet I journey through this weary land, 
Keep mc from wandering. Father, take my hand \ 

Quickly and straight 

Lead to heaven's gate 
Thy child I 

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' FA THER, TAKE MY HAXD:' 129 




The path is rough, my Father I Many a thorn 
Has pierced me ; and my weary feet, all torn 
And bleeding, mark the way. Yet thy command 
Bids me press forward. Father, take my hand ; 

Then, safe and blest, 

Lead up to rest 
Thy chUd I 

The throng is great, my Father 1 Many a doubt 
And fear and danger compass me about ; 
And foes oppress me sore. I cannot stand 
Or go alone. O Father ! take my hand, 

And throuojh the throng 

Lead safe along 
Thy child! 

The cross is heavy. Father ! I have borne 
It long, and still do bear it. Let my worn 
And fainting spirit rise to that blest land 
Where orowns are given. Father, take my hand j 

And, reaching down 

Lead to the crown 
Thy chUd 1 





130 THE GRACIOUS ANSWER. 






THE GRACIOUS ANSWER. 

The way is dark, my cldld! hut leads to light. 
I iDoidd not always have thee lualk by sight. 
My dealings now thou canst not understand. 
I meant it so ; hut I will take thy hand, 

And through the gloom 

Lead safely home 
My child 1 

The day goes fast, my child! But is the nigJd 
Barker to me than day ? In me is light ! 
Keep close to me, and every spectral band 
Of fears shall vanish, I will take thy hand. 

And through the night 

Lead up to light 
My child! 

The way is long, my child ! But it shall be 
JVot one step longer than is best for thee , 
And thou shalt hiow, at last, when thou shall stand 
Safe at the goal, how I did take thy hand, 

And quick and straight 

Lead to heaven's gate 
My child ! 



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The path is rough, mij child I But oh ! hon swco.i 
Will he the rest, for iveary pilgrims meet, 
Wien thou shalt reach the borders of that land 
To which I lead thee, as I take thy hand , 

And safe and hlcst 

With me shalt rest 
My child ! 

The throng is great, my child ! But at thy side 
Thy Father icalks : then he not terrified ' 
For I am loith thee ; zvill thy foes command 
To let thee freely pass ; icitl take thy handy 

And through the throng 

Lead safe along 
My child I 

The cross h heavy, child! Yet there was One 
Who hore a heavier for thee : my Son, 
My Well-heloved. For Ilim hear thine ; and stand 
With Him at last ; and, from thy Father's hand. 
Thy cross laid down, 
Receive a crown, 
My child ! 

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132 ASLEEP ON GUARD t 




ASLEEP ON GUARD! 

^^ /^ SHAME!" we're sometimes fain to say 
\_y " On Peter sleeping, while Kis clear Lord 
lay 
ANvake Avith anguish, in the garden's shade, 
Waiting Ilis hour to be betrayed." 

We say, or think, if we had gone 
Thither — instead of Peter, James, and John — 
And Christ had left us on the outpost dim, 
As sentinels, to watch with Him ; 

"We would have sooner died, than sleep 

The little time we vigil had to keep ; 

Then wake, to feel His torturing question's power 

'• Could ye not watch with me one hour ?" 

One hour in sad Gethsemane ! 

And such an hour as that to Him must be ! 

All night our tireless eyes had pierced the shade, 

YvTiere He in grief's great passion prayed. 

What do we now, to make our word 
Seem no vain boast of love to Christ our Lord T 
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No more, the olive's shade beneath, 
The human Christ foretastes the cup of death, 
And leaves His servants in the outer gloom. 
To watch till He again shall come ! 

Yet arc there midnights dark and di-ead, 
When Jesus still by traitors is betrayed ; 
Our bosom-sin's the lurking foe at hand, 
And "Watch with me" is Christ's command. 

One little hour of sleepless care, 
And sin could wrest no victory from us there , 
But, with the fame of our loved Lord to keep, 
Like those we scorn, we fall asleep. 

Oh ! if our risen Lord must chide 
Our souls, for slumbering His death-cross beside, 
What face have we to boast our feeble sense 
Had shamed poor Peter's vigilance I 

On Peter, James, and John, no more 
The wrong reproach of hasty pride we pour j 
But feel within the question's torturing power, 
" Could 7je not wateh with me one hour?" 



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TEE HOUR OF PRAYER. 

MY God, is any hour so sweet, 
From blush of morn to evening star. 
As that which calls me to Thy feet — 
The hour of prayer ! 

Blest is that tranquil hour of morn. 
And blest that hour of solemn eve. 

When, on the wings of faith up-borne, 
The world I leave ! 

For then a day-spring shines on mc. 
Brighter than morn's ethereal glow : 

And richer dews descend from Thee 
Than earth can know. 



Then is my strength by Thee renewed ; 

Then do I feel my sins forgiven ; 
Then dost Thou cheer my solitude 

With joys of heaven. 

No words can tell what sweet relief 
There for my every want I find ; 

What strength for warfare, balm for griof, 
What peace of mind. 








THY WILL BE DONE. 



135 



Iluslied is each doubt, gone every fear ', 
My spirit seems in heaven to stay ^ 

And e'en the penitential tear 
Is wiped away. 

Lord ! till I reach that blissful shore, 
No privilege so dear shall be, 

As thus my inmost soul to pour 
In prayer to Thee. 



THY WILL BE BONE. 

WE see not, know not. All our way 
Is night. With Thee alone is day \ 
From out the torrent's troubled drift, 
Above the storm — our prayers we lift — 
Thy will be done ! 

The flesh may fail, the heart may faint, 
But who-are we, to make complaint, 
Or dare to plead, in times like these, 
The weakness of our love of ease ? 
Thy will be done ! 

We take with solemn thankfulness 
(Jur burden faj), nor ask it less ; 
And count it joy that even wo 



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May suffer, serve, or wait for Thee, 
AVhose Avill be done 1 

lliough dim, as yet, in tint and line, 
We trace Thy picture's wise design, 
And thank Thee that our age supplies 
Its dark relief of sacrifice — 
Thy will be done ! 

And if, in our unworthiness, 
Thy sacrificial wine we press ; 
If, from Thy ordeal's heated bars, 
Our feet arc seamed with crimson scars, 
Thy will be done ! 

i^^ for the age to come, this Iiour 
Of trial hath vicarious power ; 
And, blest by Thee, our present pain 
Be Liberty's eternal gain, 
Thy will be done ! 

Strike ! Thou the Master, we Thy keys, 
The anthem of the destinies ! 
The minor of Thy loftier strain, 
Our hearts shall breathe the old rcfraia — 
Thy will be done I 



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HY2m OF TRUST. 

LOVE Divine ! that stooped to share 
Our sharpest pang, our bitterest teart 
On Thee we cast each earth-born care ; 
We smile at pain while Thou art near ! 

Though long the weary way we tread, 
And sorrows crown each lingering year, 

No path we shun, no darkness dread, 

Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near ! 



When drooping pleasure turns to grief, 
xind trembling faith is changed to fear, 

The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf, 
Shall softly tell us, Thou art near I 

On Tliee we fling our burdening woe, 

O Love Divine ! for ever dear ; 
Content to suffer, while we know, 

Lining and dying. Thou art near ! 

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THE BURIAL OF 310 SES, 

BY Nebo's lonely mountain, 
On this side Jordan's •wave, 
In a vale in the land of Moab, 

There lies a lonely grave ; 
And no man dug that sepulchre, 

And no man saw it e'er. 
For the " Sons of God " upturned the sod, 
And laid the dead man there. 

That "was the grandest funeral 

That ever passed on earth ; 
But no man heard the trampling, 

Or saw the train go forth. 
Noiselessly as the day-light 

Comes when the night is done, 
And the crimson streak on ocean's check 

Grows into the great sun — 

Noiselessly as the spring-time 

Her crown of verdure weaves 
And all the trees on all the hills 

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So, wltliout sound of music, 

Or voice of tbcm that wept, 
Silently down from the mountain's crown 

The great procession swept. 

Perchance the bald old eagle, 

On gray Beth-peor's height, 
Out of his rocky eyry 

Looked on the wondrous sight ; 
Perchance the lion stalking 

Still shuns that hallo w^ed spot : 
For beast and bird have seen and heard 

That which man knoweth not. 

But when the warrior dieth, 

His comrades in the war, 
With arms reversed, and muffled driun, 

Follow the funeral car. 
They show the banners taken, 

They tell his battles won. 
And after him lead his masterless steed, 

While peals the minute-gun. 

Amid the noblest of the land 

Men lay the sage to rest, 
And give the bard an honored place, 

With costiv marble drest — 



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140 TffE BUEIAL OF MOSES. 



Li tlie great minster trcansept, 

"Wlicre lights like glories fall, 
And the sweet choir sings, and the organ ring* 

Along the emblazoned wall. 

This was the bravest warrior 

That ever buckled sword ; 
This, the most gifted poet 

That ever breathed a word ; 
And never earth's philosopher 

Traced with his golden pen, 
On the deathless page, truths half so sago 

As he wrote down for men. 

And had he not high honor ? 

The hill-side for his pall, 
To He in state while angels wait, 

With stars for tapers tall. 
And the dark rock-pines like tossing plumes 

Over his bier to wave. 
And God's own hand, in that lonely land, 

To lay him in the grave I 

In that deep grave without a name, 

Whence his uncoffined clay 
Shall break again — most wondrous thought — 

Before the Judgment-day, 



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And stand, with glory wrapped around, 

On the hills he never trod, 
And speak of the strife that won our life 

With the Incarnate Son of God. 



lonely tomb In Moab's land 1 

O dark Beth-peor hill I 
Speak to these curious hearts of em's, 

And teach them to be still. 
God hath His mysteries of grace, 

"Ways that we cannot tell ; 
And hides them deep, like the secret sleep 

Of him He loved so well. 




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l\i And you lie dreaming on *, 
The others have buckled their armor, 

And forth to the fight are gone : 
A place in the ranks awaits you. 

Each man has some part to play ; 
The Past and Future are looking 

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142 THE NEED OF JESUS. 



THE NEED OF JESUS. 

I NEED Thee, precious Jesus! 
For I am full of sin ; 
My soul is dark and guilty. 

My heart is dead within ; 
.1 need the cleansing fountain, 
Where 1 can always flee — 
The blood of Christ most preciois, 
The sinner's perfect plea. 

I need Thee, precious Jesus 1 

For I am very poor ; 
A stranger and a pilgrim, 

I have no earthly store ; 
I need the love of Jesus, 

To cheer me on my way : 
To guide my doubting footsteps, 

To be my strength and stay. 

I need Thee, precious Jesus I 

I need a friend like Thee — 
A friend to soothe and sympathize; 

A friend to care for me ; 
I need the heart of Jesus, 

To feel each anxious care, 
To tell my every want, 

And all my sorrows share. 



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I need Thee, precious Jesus I 

For I am very blind ; 
A weak and foolish wanderer, 

With a dark and evil mind •, 
I need the light of Jesus, 

To tread the thorny road, 
To guide me safe to glory — 

Where I shall see my God. 

I need Thee, precious Jesus I 

I need Thee day by day — 
To fill me with Thy fulness, 

To lead me on my way ; 
I need Thy Holy Spirit, 

To teach me what I am, 
To show me more of Jesus, 

To point me to the Lamb, 

I need Thee, precious Jesus ! 

And hope to see Thee soon, 
Encircled with the rainbow, 

And seated on Thy throne ; 
There, with Thy blood-bought cliilireai, 

My joy shall ever be, 
To sing Thy praises, Jesus ! 

To gaze, my Lord, on Thee ! 



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144 TJIS CEEISTIAN AND HIS ECHO. 



THE CHRISTIAN- AND HIS ECHO. 

TRUE faith, producing love to God and man, 
Say, Echo, is not this the Gospel plan ? 
The Gospel plan. 

Must I my faith and love to Jesus show, 
By doing good to all, both friend and foe ? 
Both friend and foe. 

But if a brother hates and treats me ill, 
Must I return him good, and love him still ? 
Love him still. 

If he my failings -watches to reveal, 
Must I his fliults as carefully conceal ? 
As carefully conceal. 

But if my name and character he blast, 
And cruel malice, too, a long time last; 
And, if I sorrow and affliction know, 
He loves to add unto my cup of woe ; 
In this uncommon, this peculiar case, 
Sweet Echo, say, must I still love and bless ? 
Still love and bless. 

Whatever usage ill I may receive, 
Must I be patient still, and still forgive ? 

Be patient still, and still forgive. 




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Why, Echo how is this V thou'rt sure a dove ! 
Thy voice shall teach me nothing else but love ! 
Kothing else but love. 

Amen ! with all my heart, then be it so ; 
*Tis all delightful, just, and good, I know; 
And now to practise I'll directly go. 
Directly go. 

Things being so, whoever me reject, 
My gracious God me surely will protect. 
Surely will protect. 

Henceforth I'll roll on Plim my every care, 
And then both friend and foe embrace in prayer, 
Embrace in prayer. 

But after all those duties I have done, 
Must I, in point of merit, them disown. 
And trust for heaven through Jesus' blood alone ? 
Through Jesus' blood alone. 

Echo, enough ! thj'" counsels to mine ear, 
Are sweeter than, to flowers, the dew-drop tear ; 
Thy wise instructive lessons please me weU : 
I'll go and practise them. Farewell, farewell I , 
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LESS AND MORE. 

ri^VsO prayers, dear Lord, in one — 
_1_ Give me both less and more ; 
Less of tbc impatient -world, and more of Theo ; 

Less of myself, and all that heretofore 
IMade me to slip Avhere -willing feet do run, 
And held me back from -where I fain -would be — 

Kept me, my Lord, from Thee ! 

All things -which most I need 

Are Thine ; Thou -wilt besto-w 
Both strength and shield, and be my -willing Guest ; 

Yet my -sveak heart takes up a broken reed. 
Thy rod and stalT doth readily forego. 
And I, -who might be rich, am poor, distressed, 

And seek but have not rest. 

How long, O Lord, ho-w long ? 

So have I cried of late, 
As though I kne-w not -\vhat I -v^'ell do kno-vN' ; 

Come Thou, Great Master Builder, and creaio 
Anew that which is Thine ; undo my wrong — 
Bj'cathe on this waste, and life and healtli besto-w 

Come, Lord, let it be so ! 



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Let It be so, and tlicn — 

AVliat thcii ? My soul sliall ^rait, 
And ever pray— all prayers, dear Lord, in one — 

Thy will o'er mine in all this mortal state 
Hold regal sway. To Tliy commands, Amen ! 
Break from my waiting lips till work is done, 

And crown and glory won. 



OOMFORT BY THE WAT. 

I JOURNEY tlirough a desert drear and wild. 
Yet is my heart by such sweet thoughts 
beguiled. 
Of Him on whom I lean — my strength and stay — 
I can forget the sorrows of the way. 

Thoughts of His love ! tlie root of every grace 
Which finds in this poor heart a dwelling-place ; 
Tiie sunshine of my soul, tlian day more bright, 
And my calm pillow of repose by night. 

Thoughts of His sojourn in this vale of tears I 
The tale of love unfolded in those years 








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BETROSPEOT. 



Of sinless suflering and patient grace 
I love again, and yet again, to trace. 

'.riionghts of His glory ! on the cross I gaze, 
And tliere behold its sad, yet healing rays ; 
Beacon of hope I which, lifted up on high, 
Illumes Avitli heavenly light the tear-dimmed eye. 

Thoughts of His coming ! For that joyful day 
In patient hope I watch, and wait, and pray ; 
The dawn draws nigh, the midnight shadows flee, 
And what a sunrise will that advent be 

Thus while I journey on, my Lord to meet, 
IMy thoughts and meditations are so sweet 
Of Him on whom I lean — my strength, my stay — 
I can forget the Borrows of the way. 



RETROSPECT. 

O LOVING One! O Bounteous One I 
What have I not received from Tlicc, 
Throughout the seasons that have gone 
Into the past eternity I 

Lowly my name and mine estate ; 
Yet, Father, many a child of Thine, 





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Of i)urG'' heart and cleaner bands, 
Walks in an humbler path than mhio. 

And, looking backward through the year 
Along tlie way my feet have pressed, 

I sec sweet places everywhere — 

Sweet places Avhere my soul had rest. 

For, though some human hopes of mine 
Are dead, and buried from my sight, 

Yet from their graves immortal flowers 
Have sprung, and blossomed into light. 

Body, and heart, and soul have been 
Fed by the most convenient food ; 

My nights are peaceful all the while, 
And all my mortal days are good. 

My sorrows have not been so lio-ht 

Thy chastening hand I could not traco ; 

Nor have my blessings been so great 
That they have hid mj- Father's face. 



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160 THE VERDICT OF DEATH. 

now DOTH DEATH SPEAK OF OUR 
BELOVED f 

■ " The rain that falls upon the height, 
Too gently to be called delight. 
In the dark valley reappears 
^3 a wild cataract of tears : 
And love in life shall strive to see 
■ Sometimes what love in death would be." 

Angel in ihe House, 

HOW doth Death speak of our beloved. 
When it hath laid them low ; 
"VVhen it has set its hallowing touch 
On speechless lip and brow ? 

It clothes their every gift and grace 
With radiance from the holiest place, 
With light as from an angel's face ; 

Eecalling with resistless force 
And tracino; to their hidden source, 
Deeds scarcely noticed in their course. 

This little loving fond device, 

That daily act of sacrifice. 

Of which too late we learn the pritje ! 

Opening our weeping eyes to trace 
Simple, unnoticed kindnesses. 
Forgotten notes of tenderness, 

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Wliicli evermore to us must be 
Sacred as hymns in infancy, 
Learned listening at a mother's knee. 

Thus doth Death speak of our beloved 

When it has laid them low : 
Then let Love antedate the work of Death, 

And do this now ! 



How doth Death speak of our beloved, 

When it has laid them low ; 
When it has set its hallowing touch 

On speechless lip and brow ? 

It sweeps their faults with heavy hand, 
As sweeps the sea the trampled sand, 
TiU scarce the faintest print is scanned. 

It shows how such a vexing deed 
Was but generous nature's weed. 
Or some choice virtue run to seed ; 

How that small fretting fretfulness 
Was but love's over-anxiousness. 
Which had not been, had love been less. 

This failing, at which we repined. 
But the dim shade of day declined, 
Which should have made us doubly kincL 



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Thus doth Death speak of our beloved, 

When it has laid them low ; 
Tlien let Love antedate the work of Death, 

And do this now ! 



How doth Death speak of our beloved. 

When it has laid them low ; 
When it has set its hallowing touch 

On speechless lip and brow ? 

It takes each failing on our part, 
And brands it in upon the heart, 
With caustic power and cruel art. 

The small neglect that may have pained, 
A giant stature will have gained 
When it can never be explained : 

The little service whicli had proved 
How tenderly we watched and loved, 
And those mute lips to glad smiles moved 

The little gift from out our store, 

Which mio-ht have cheered some cheerless 

hour. 
When they with earth's poor needs were poor 
But never Avill be needed more 1 



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It shows our faults liko fires at niglit ; 
It sweeps their failings out of siglit, 
It clothes their good in heavenly light. 

O Christ our life ! fore-date the work of DeatJK, 

And do this now ! 
Thou who art love, thus hallow our beloved ' 

Not Death, but Thou ! 



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"N human form enthroned, 
The sin of man atoned, 
Immanuel sits in highest seat of heaven , 
Our nature there He wears. 
And that blest union bears. 
In David's city on the low earth given. 

He draws us by a love, 

Not such as seraphs move 
In happy life through all the realms of space 

More subtle is the chord. 

The speaking of a word 
In iancruajre learned among our fleshlv raco. 

" My blood, once flowing frce 
Upon the darkened tree. 




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Gives life to you in heaven's eternal room ; 

The Brother and the Friend, 

Through ages without end, 
Shall e'en outlast the Saviour from the doom.' 



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THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. 

THOU art the Way ! 
All ways are thorny mazes without Thee ; 
Where hearts are pierced, and thoughts all aim- 
less stray, 
In Thee the heart stands firm, the life moves 
free : 
Thou art our Way ! 

Thou art the Truth ! 
Questions the ages break against in vain 

Confront the spirit in its untried youth ; 
It starves while learning poison from the grain : 

Thou art the Truth ! 

Thou art the Truth ! 
Truth for the mind, grand, glorious, infinite, 

A heaven still boundless o'er its highest growth; 
Bread for the heart its daily need to meet. 
Thou art the Truth ! 



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Thou art the Light ! 
Earth beyond earth no faintest ray can give ; 
Heaven's shadeless noontide blinds our mortal 
sight ; 
In Thee we look on God, and love and live: 
Thou art our Light ! 

Thou art the Rock I 
Doubts none can solve heave wild on every side, 
Wave meeting wave of thought in ceaseless 
shock ; 
On Thee the soul rests calm amidst the tide : 
Thou art the Kock ! 

Thou art the Life I 
All ways without Thee paths that end in death ; 

All life without Thee with death's harvest rife ; 
All truths dry bones, disjoined and void of breath : 
Thou art our Life ! 

For Thou art Love ! 
Our Way and End ! the way is rest with Thee I 

living Truth ! the truth is life in Thee 1 
Life essential ! life is bliss with Theo I 

For Thou art Love 1 



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THE TIME FOB PRAYER. 




THE TIME FOR PRAYER. 

WHEN is the time for prayer ? 
With the first beams that light the 
morning sky, 
Ere for the toils of day thou dost prepare, 

Lift up thy thoughts on high ; 
Commend thy loved ones to Ilis watchful care : 
Morn is the time for prayer. 

And in the noontide hour. 

If worn by toil, or by sad cares oppressed, 
Then unto God thy spirit's sorrow pour, 

And He v/ill give thee rest ; 
Thy voice shall reach Him through the fields of 
air : 

Noon is the time for prayer. 

\Ylien the bright sun hath set, 

While eve's bright colors deck the skies ; 
AVlien Avith the loved at home again thou'st met, 

Then let thy prayers arise ; 
t or those who in thy joys and sorrows share, 

Zii-e is the time for prayer. 

And when the stars come forth — 

When to the trusting heart sweet hopes are 
sriven, 




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And tbe deep stillness of the hour gives birth 

To pure bright dreams of heaven ; 
Kneel to thy God — ask strength, life's ills to bear 

Night is the time for prayer. 

When is the time for prayer ? 

In everu liour, while life is spared to thee ; 
In crowds or solitude, in joy or care, 

Thy thoughts should heavenward flee. 
At home, at morn and eve, with loved ones there. 

Bend thou the knee in prayer ! 



LIGHT IN DARKNESS. 

BREEZES of spring, all earth to life awak- 
ing, 
Birds swiftly soaring through the sunny sky, 
The butterfly its lonely prison breaking, 

The seed up-springing which had seemed to die 

Types such as these a word of hope have spoken, 
Have shed a gleam cf light around the tomb ; 

But weary hearts longed for a surer token, 
A clearer' ray, to dissipate its gloom. 

And this was granted ! See the Lord ascending. 
On crimson clouds of evening calmly borne, 



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Witli hands out-stretched, and looks of love still 
bendino" 
On his bereaved ones, who no longer mourn. 

" I am the resurrection ! " hear Him saying, 
*' I am the life ; he who believes in me 

Shall never die ; the souls my call obeying. 
Soon where I am for evermore shall be." 

Sing halleluiah ! light from heaven appearing, 
The mystery of life and death is plain ; 

Now to the grave we can descend unfearing, 
In sure and certain hope to rise again ! 




COMMUNION WITH GOD, 

LORD, I am come along with Thee 1 
Thy voice to hear, Thy face to see, 
And feel Thy presence near ; 
It Is not fancy's lovely dream, 
Though wondrous e'en to faith it seem, 
That Thou dost wait me here, 

A moment from this outward life, 
Its service, self-denial, strife, 
I joyfully retreat ; 
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Strerigtiiened, refreshed, and calmed shall be, 
Its scenes again to meet. 

Ho"w can It be that one so mean, 
A sinner, selfish, dark, unclean, 

Thus in the Plollest stands ? 
And In that light divinely pure 
Which may no stain of sin endure, 

Lifts up rejoicing hands ! 

Jesus ! the answer Thou hast given ! 
Thy death. Thy life, have opened heaven 

And all its joys to me ; 
Washed in Thy blood — oh ! wondrous grace ! 
I'm holy as the Holy Place 

In which I worship Thee. 

How sweet, hoAV solemn thus to lie, 
And feel Jehovah's searching eye 

On me well pleased can rest I 
Because with His Beloved Son, 
The Father's grace has made me one-, 

I must be always blest. 

The secret pangs I could not tell 

To dearest friend — Tliou knowest well ; 

They claim Thy gracious heart : 
Thou dost remove with tender care, 



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160 COMMUNION WITH GOD. 

Or sweetly give me strength to bear 
The sanctifying smart. 

Thy presence has a wondrous power ! 
The sharjiest thorn becomes a flower, 

And breathes a sweet perfume \ 
Whatever looked dark and sad before, 
With happy light shines silvered o'er, 

TJiere's no such thing as gloom 1 

Thou know'st 1 have a cross to bear ; 
The needful stroke Thou dost not spare, 

To keep me near Thy side ; 
But when I see the chastening rod 
In Thy pierced hand, my Lord, my God ! 

I feel so satisfied ! 

Now, while I tell Thee how, within, 
I oft indulge my bosom sin. 

How faithless oft I prove 
No cold repulse, no frown I meet, 
But tender, soul-subduing, sweet 

Js the rebuke of Love. 



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THE SUFFERER CHEERED 

^' O^Y! shall I take the thorn away?" 
KIj So spake my gracious Lord — 
" O'er which thy sighs are heaved by day, 
Thy nightly tears are poured ? 
Say ! shall I give thee rest and ease, 

!Make earth's fair prospects rise, 
And b.id thy bark o'er summer seas 
Float smoothly to the skies ? 

" Shall peace and plenty's cup swell high^ 

Health leap through every vein. 
And all exempt thy moments fly 

From bitter inward pain ? 
Be naught to check the inspiring flow 

Of human friendship's tide ; 
And every want thy heart can know, 

Be quickly satisfied ? 

" Know, thine ease-loving heart might miss 

The comfort with the care ! 
And that full tide of earthly bliss 

Leave little room for prayer ! 
Few were thy visits to the throne, 

Unhastened there by pain ; 
Thou, o'er thy bojom-sins, alone, 

Wouldst small advantage gain ! 



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" Nor deem the highest, holiest joy 

A stranger still to woe ; 
Blest servants in my high employ, 

Most closely hnked they go. 
J\Iy love illumes with tcnderest rays 

The path of self-denial ; 
And burning bright the glory's blazo 

That croAvns the fiery trial ! 

" In conscious weakness thou shalt hang 

On my almighty arm ! 
Soon as the thorn inflicts its pang, 

I'll pour my love's rich balm. 
Thou plainest in thy deepest woe 

Shalt feel me at thy side ; 
And, for my praise, to all shalt show, 

Thou art well satisfied. 



" Then, wilt thou in thy Master's cup 

Consent awhile to share ? 
Know, when in love I drank it up. 

No wraili was left thee there ! 
Thy Saviour's love and power to bless, 

Trust where thou canst not see I 
And in yon howling wilderness 

Step fearless forth with me I " 



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" Lord ! magnify Thyself in me !" 
With falterhig lips I said ; 
For, strong to bear as faith may be, 

Weak nature quails with dread. 
But He who through the shrinkinfi flesli 

The spirit's will can read, 
. Smiled on His work, and bade afresh 
All grace meet all my need. 



ALL IN CHRIST. 

IN Thee my heart, O Jesus ! finds repose ; 
Thou bringest rest to all that weary arc. 
Until that Day-spring from on high arose, 
I wandered through a night without a star ; 
My feet had gone astray 
Upon a lonely way : 
Each guide I followed failed me in my need ; 
Each staff I leaned on proved a broken reed. 

Then, when in mine extremity to Thee 
I turned. Thy pity did prevent my prayer ; 
From that entangling maze it set me free, 

And quickly loosed my heavy load of care 



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Gave me tbe lofty scope 

Of a heaven-centred hope, 
And led me on with Thee, a gentle Guide, 
Thither, where pm^e immortal joys abide. 

Tlioii art the great completion of my soul. 
The blest fulfilment of its deepest need ; 
When self-surrendered to Thy mild control, 
It enters into liberty indeed ; 
Thy love, a genial law, 
Its every aim doth draw 
Within its holy range, and sweetly luro 
Its longings toward the beautiful and piu'e. 

Thy presence is the never-failing spring 

Of Hfe and comfort in each darker hour ; 
And, through thy grace benignly ministering, 
Grief wields a secret, purifying power. 
'Tis sweet, O Lord I to know 
Thy kindredness with woe ; 
Sweeter to walk with Thee on ways apart 
Than with the world, where heart is shut to heart. 

For Thee eternity reserves her hymn ; 

For Thee earth has her prayers, and heaven Lor 
vows ; 
Thy saints adore Thee, and the seraphim. 

Under thy glory, stoop their starry brows. 

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" HIMSELF HA TR DOXE ITT 1 06 

Oil ! may that light divine 
On mc still clearer shine — 
A power, an inspiration from above, 
Lifting me higher to Thy perfect love ! 



''HIMSELF HATH BONE IT P 

" 'FTI-'^ISELF hath done It" all! Oh I how 
A L those words 

Should hush to silence every murmuring thought 1 
Himself hath done It — He who loves me best, 

He Avho my soul with His own blood hath bought. 

" Himself hath done It !" Can It then be aught 
Than full of wisdom, full of tendercst love ? 

Not one unneeded sorrow will He send, 

To teach this wandering heart no more to rove. 

" Himself hath done It !" Yes, although severe 
May seem the stroke, and bitter be tlie cup, 

'Tis His own hand that holds it, and I know 
He'll give me grace to drink It meekly up. 

" Himself hath done It I" Oh I no arm but His 
Could e'er sustain beneath earth's dreary lot j 

But while I know He's dolns: all thlnsrs well, 
My heart His loving-kindness questions not. 

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" Himself hath done it 1" He avIio's searched me 
through, 

Sees how I cleave to earth's ensnaring ties ; 
And so He breaks each reed on which my soid 

Too much for happiness and joy relies. 

•' Himself hath done it !" He would have me see 
AMiat broken cisterns human friends must prove ; 

That I may turn and quench my burning thirst 
At His own fount of ever-living love. 

'' Himself hath done it !" Then I fain -would say, 
" Thy will in all things evermore be done '," 

E'en though that will remove whom best I love, 
While Jesus lives I cannot be alone. 

" Himself hath done it !" Precious, precious words, 
" Himself," my Father, Saviom', Brother, Friend ; 

"Whose faithfulness no variation knows ; 
AMio. having loved me, loves me to the end. 

And when, in His eternal presence blest, 
I at His feet my crown immortal cast, 

I'll gladly own, with all His ransomed saints, 
" Himself hath done it " — all, fi'om first to last ! 




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LIVING WATERS. 

N some wild Eastern legend the stor}' Las been 
told, 
Of a fair and wondrous fountain, that flowed in 

times of old ; 
Cold and crystalline its waters, brightly glancing 

in the ray 
Of the summer moon at midnight, or the sun at 
height of day. 



And a good angel, resting there, once in a favored 

hour 
Infused into the limpid depths a strange mysterious 

power; 
A hidden principle of life, to rise and gush again, 
Where but some drops were scattered on the dry 

and barren plain. 



So the traveller might journey, not now in fear 

and haste. 
Far through the mountain-desert, far o'er the 

sandy waste, 




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If but he sought this fountain fii-st, and from its 

wondrous store 
Tlic secret of unfailing springs along with lilni he 

bore. 

"Wild and fanciful the legend — yet may not raean- 
in2;s hloh, 

Visions of better things to come, -within its slradow 
He? 

Type of a better fountain, to mortals now un- 
sealed, 

The full and free salvation in Christ our Lord re- 
vealed ? 

Beneath the Cross those waters rise, and he who 

finds them there 
All through the wilderness of life the living stream 

may bear ; 
And blessings follow in his steps, until where'er he 

goes, 
Q'ho moral wastes begin to bud and blossom as the 

rose. 



Ho ! every one that thirsteth, come to this fount- 
ain side ! 
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Yet linger not, but hasten on, and bear to all 

around 
Glad tidings of the love, and peace, and mercy 

tliou hast found ! 

To Afric's pathless deserts, to Greenland's frozen 
shore — 

Where din of mighty cities sounds, or savage mon- 
sters roar — 

Wherever man may wander ^rith his heritage of 
woe. 

To tell of brighter things above, go, brothers, 
gladly go ! 

Then, as of old in vision seen before the prophet's 

eyes. 
Broader and deeper on its course the stream of 

life shall rise ; 
And everywhere, as on it flows, shall carry light 

and love, 
Peace and good-will to man on earth, glory to 

God above I 



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ABIDE WITH US. 

rp^ HE tender light is fading where 
I AVe pause and linger still, 

And, through the dim and saddened air, 
TTe feel the evening chill. 

Long hast Thou journeyed with us, Lord, 

Ere we Thy face did know ; 
Oh ! still Thy fellowship afford, 

While dark the shadows grow. 

For passed Is many a beauteous field, 

Beside our morning road ; 
And many a fount to us is sealed 

That once so freshly flowed. 

The splendor of the noontide lies 

On other paths than ours ; 
The dews that lave yon fragrant skies 

Will not revive our flowers. 

It Is not now as In the glow 

Of life's Impassioned heat, 
When to the heart there seemed to flow 

All that of earth was sweet. 



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Sometliing has faded — sometlilnfr died — 

without us and within ; 
"We more than ever need a guide ; 

Blinded and weak with sin. 

The weight Is heavy that we bear, 
Our strength more feeble grows ; 

Weary with toll and pain and care, 
W"e long for sweet repose. 

Stay with us, gracious Saviour, stay, 
AVhile friends and hopes depart ! 

Fainting, on Thee Ave wish to lay 
The burden of our heart. 

Abide with us, dear Lord ! remain 
Our Life, our Truth, our Way ! 

So shall our loss be turned to gain — 
Night dawn to endless day. 



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172 TBS BETTER LIFE. 



THE BETTER LIFE. 

'All the way by which the Lord thy God led Ihce." 

"TXT'HEN -sve reach a quiet dwelling 

V V On the strong eternal hills, 
And our praise to Him is swelling, 

"WHio the vast creation fills: 
"When the paths of prayer and duty 

And affliction all are trod, 
And we wake and see the beauty 

Of our Saviour and our God ^ 

With the light of resurrection, 

AMien our changed bodies glow, 
And we gain the full perfection 

Of the bliss begun below ; 
Wlien the life that flesh obscureth 

In each radiant form shall shine, 
And the joy that aye endureth 

Flashes forth in beams divine 



Wliile Ave wave the palms of glory 
Through the long eternal years, 

Shall we e'er forget the story 
Of our mortal griefs and fears ? 



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THE BETTER LIFE. l73 

Shall we e'er forget the sadness 

And the clouds that hung so dim, 
When our hearts are filled with gladness 

And our tears are dried by Him ? 

Shall the memory be banished 

Of His kindness and His care, 
When the wants and woes are vanished. 

Which He loved to soothe and share — 
All the way by which He brought us, 

All the grievings which He bore. 
All the patient love He taught us, 

Shall we think of them no more ? 

Yes ! we surely shall remember 

How He quickened us from death : 
How He fanned the dying ember 

With His Spirit's glowing breath. 
We shall read the tender meaning 

Of the sorrows and alarmg 
As we trod the desert, leaning 

On His everlasting arms. 

And His rest will be the dearer 

When we think of weary ways, 
And His light will seem the clearer 

As we muse on cloudy days. 

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1*74 PHAT FOR WHOM TUOU LOTUS T, 



Oh ! 'twill be a glorious morrow 
To a dark and stormy day ; 

Wc shall recollect our sorrow 
As the streams that pass away 



FJiAY FOR WHOM THOU LOVEST, 

Prat for whom thou lovest ; thou wilt never have any com- 
fort of his friendship for whom thou dost not pray. 

YES, pray for whom thou lovest ; thou mayst 
vainly, idly seek 
The fervid words of tenderness by feeble words to 

speak ; 
Go kneel before thy Father's throne, and meekly, 

humbly there 
Ask blessins: for the loved one in the silent hour 
of prayer. 

Yes, pray for whom thou lovest ; if uncounted 

wealth were thine — 
The treasures of the boundless deep, the riches of 

the mine — 
Thou could'st not to thy cherished friends a gift 

so dear impart. 
As the earnest benediction of a deeply loving 

henrt. 





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DBAWIKG WATER. 1^5 

Seek not the worldling's friendship, it shall droop 

and wave ere lono- 
In the cold and heartless glitter of the pleasuro- 

lovlng thro lo- , 
Jiiit seek the friend who when thy prayer for him 

shall murmured be, 
Breathes forth in filthful sympathy a fervent 

prayer for thee. 

And should thy flowery path of life become a path 
of i:)aln. 

The friendship formed In bonds like these thy 
spirit shall sustain ; 

Years may not chill, nor change Invade, nor pov- 
erty Impair, 

The love that grew and flourished at the holy time 
of prayer. 





DRAWING WATER. 

I HAD drank with lip unsated 
Where the founts of pleasure burst ; 
I had hewn out broken cisterns, 
And they mocked my spirit's thirst. 

And I said, Life is a desert, 
Hot and measureless and dry ; 



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And God avIII not give mc water, 
Though I pray and fahit and die I 

Sj'joke there then a friend and brother. 

" Rise and roll the stone away ! 
There are founts of life upsprlnging 

In thy pathway every day." 

Then I said my heart was sinful — 
Yery sinful was my speech ; 

All the wells of God's salvation 
Are too deep for me to reach. 

And he answered : " Rise and labor ! 

Doubt and idleness is death ; 
Shape thou out a goodly vessel 

With the strong hands of thy faith I'' 

So I wrought and shaped the vessel, 
Then knelt lowly, humbly there ; 

And I drew up living water, 

"With the golden chain of prayer. 



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A TRUE DRE.Ur. 

I DREAMT wc danced in careless glee, 
With hearts and footsteps light and free, 
That one so dearly loved and I, 
As in the childish days gone by 

For ever. 

I felt her arms around me fold, 
I heard her soft laugh as of old ; 
Her eyes with smiles were brimming o'er, 
Eyes wc may meet on earth no more 

For ever. 

Then there came mingling with my dreams 
A sense perplexed of loss and change — 
An echo dim of time and tears ; 
Until I said : " How long it seems 

Since thus we danced ! Is it not strange ? 
Do you not feel the weight of years ? 
Or dread life's evening shadows cold ? 
Or mourn to think we must grow old ?" 
Wondering, she paused a little while, 
Then answered, with a radiant smile : 

" No, never I " 



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Wondering as If to lier I told 

The customs of some foreign land 

Or spoke a tongue she knew of old, 
But could no longer understand. 

Till o'er her face that sunshine broke, 

And with that radiant smile she spoke 
That " Never." 

But not initil the dream had fled 
I knew the sense of what she said ; 
Young with immortal truth and love, 
Chikl in the Father's house above 
For ever. 

AVe echo back thy words again ; 
They smite us with no grief or pain ; 
We journey not towards the night, 
But to tlie breaking; of the light 
Together. 

Our hfe is no poor cisterned store 
The lavish years are draining low \ 

But living streams that, welling o'er. 
Fresh from the Living Fountain flow 
For ever. 




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"(9 LORD! THOU KNOWEST:' 

THOU knowcst, Lord, the -weariness and sor- 
row 
Of the sad heart that comes to Thee for rest • 
Cares of to-day, and burdens for to-morrow, 

Blessings implored, and sins to be confessed, 
I come before Thee at Thy gracious word, 
And lay them at Thy feet — Thou knowest. Lord. 

Thou knowest all the past ; how long and blindly 
On the dark mountains the lost wanderer 
strayed ; 
How the good Shepherd folloAved, and how kindly 

He bore it home, upon His shoulders laid, 
And healed the bleeding wounds, and soothed the 

pain, 
And brought back life, and hope, and strengtli 
again. 

niou knowest all the present : each temptation. 
Each toilsome duty, each foreboding fear \ 

All to myself assigned of tribulation, 

Or to beloved ones, than self more dear ! 

All pensive memories, as I journey on, 

Longings for vanished smiles, and voices gone ! 



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180 ''0 LORD! TEOV ENOWESTr 



Thou knowcst all the future : gleams of gladncr^, 
By stormy clouds too quickly overcast ; 

Hours of sweet fellowship, and parting sadness 
And the dark river to be crossed at last : 

Oh ! what could confidence and hope ailbrd 

To tread that jmth, but this — ilion Jcnowesf, Lord ! 

Thou knowest, not alone as God, all-knowing ; 

As man, our mortal weakness thou hast proved ; 
On earth, with purest sympathies o'erflowing, 

O Saviour I Thou hast Avept, and Thou hast 
loved ! 
And Love and Sorrow still to Thee mav come. 
And find a hiding-place, a rest, a home. 

Therefore I come. Thy gentle call obeying, ' 
And lay my sins and sorroAvs at Thy feet, 

On everlasting strength my weakness staying, 
Clothed In Thy robe of righteousness complcto ' 

llien rising and refreshed, I leave Thy throne, 

And follow on to know as I am known ! 



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MINISTRY. 181 



MIX] STR Y. 

"TuL' Sou of Man came not to be ministered uuto, but to 
minister." 

SINCE service is the highest lot, 
And all arc in one Body bound, 
In all the world the place is not 

Wliich may not with this bliss be crowned. 

The sufferer on the bed of pain 
Need not be laid aside from this ; 

But for each kindness gives again 
" This joy cf doing kindnesses." 

The poorest may enrich this feast, 

Not one lives only to receive ; 
But renders through the hands of Christ 

Richer returns than man can give. 

The little child, in trustful glee, 

With love and gladness brimming o'er, 

Many a cup of ministry 

May for the vrcary veteran pour. 

The lonely glory of a throne 
May yet this lowly joy preserve ; 



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182 MINISTRY. 

Love may make that a stepping-stone, 
And raise " I reign " into " I serve." 

This, by the ministries of prayer, 

The loneliest life •with blessings cro'vvils, 

Can consecrate each petty care, 
Make angels' ladders out of clouds. 

Nor serve we onlv when we ffird 

Our hearts for special ministry ; 
That creature best has ministered 

Which is what it was meant to be. 

Birds by being glad their Maker bless 

By simply shining, sun and star ; 
And we, whose laAV is love, serve less 

By what we do than what we are. 

Since service is the highest lot 

And angels know no higher bliss, 
Then with what good her cup is frauglit 

Who was created but for this ! 



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IT IS WELL. 

O O they said, who saw the wonders 
fO Of Messiah's power and love ; 
So they sing, who see His gloi-y 

In the Father's house above ; 
Ever reading, in each record 

Of the strangely varied past, 
" All was well which God appointed, 

All has wrought for good at last." 

And on earth we hear the echoes 

Of that chorus in the sky ; 
Through the day of toil or weeping, 

Faith can raise a glad reply. 
It is well, O saints departed ! 

Well with you, for ever blest. 
Well with us, who journey forward 

To your glory and your rest I 

Times are changing, days are flying, 

Years are quickly past and gone, 
Vhile the wildlv mingled murmur 

Of life's busy hum goes on ; 
Sounds of tumult, sounds of triumph, 

INIarriage chimes and passing-bell ; 
Yet through all one key-note sounding, 

A ngels' watchword : " It is well." 



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Wc may hear it, through the rushing 

Of the midnight tempest's wave ; 
We may hear it, through the weeping 

Round the newly covered grave ; 
In the dreary house of mourning, 

In the darkened room of pain. 
If we listen meekly, rightly, 

We may catch that soothing strain. 

For Thine arm thou hast not shortened, 

Neither turned away thine ear, 
O Saviour ! ever ready 

The afflicted's prayer to hear ! 
Show us light, still surely resting 

Over all Thy darkest ways ; 
Give us faith, still surely trusting 

Through the sad and evil days. 

And thus, while years are tleeting. 

Though our joys are with them gone, 
In Thy changeless love rejoicing 

We shall journey calmly on ; 
Till at last, all sorrow over, 

Each our tale of grace shall tell, 
In the heavenly chorus joining : 

" Lord, thou hast done all things well ! 



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THE CROSS. 185 

I. 

THE CROSS. 

" Now there sto^d by the Cross of Jesus His mother." 

ry^HE strongest light casts deepest shade, 
1 The dearest love makes dreariest loss, 

And she His birth so blessed had made 
Stood by Him dying on the cross. 

Yet since not grief but joy shall last, 

The day and not the night abide, 
And all time's shadows, earthward cast, 

Arc lights upon the " other side ;" 

Through what long bliss that shall not fail, 

That darkest hour shall brighten on ! 
Better than any angel's " Hail ! " 

The memory of " BeJiold thy Son ! " 

Blessed in thy lowly heart to store 

The homage paid at Bethlehem ; 
But far more blessed evermore, 

Thus to have shared the taunts and shame. 

Thus with thy pierced heart to have stood 
'Mid mocking crowds and OAvned Him thine, 

True through a world's ingratitude, 
And owned in death by lips Divine. 



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THE CROWN. 

rr^HOU slialt be crowned, O mother blest ! 
JL Our hearts behold thee crowned e'en now ] 
The crown of motherhood, earth's best, 
O'ershadowing thy maiden brow. 

Thou shalt be crowned ! JNIore fragrant bays 

Then ever poet's brows entwine, 
For thine immortal hymn of praise, 

First Singer of the Church, are thine. 

Tliou shalt be crowned ! All earth and heaven 

Thy coronation pomp shall see ; 
The Hand by which thy crown is given 

Shall be no stranger's hand to thee. 

Thou shait be crowned ! but not a oueen \ 

A better triumph ends thy strife : 
Heaven's bridal raiment, white and clean, 

The victor s crown of fadeless life. 

Thou shalt be crowned ! but not alone — 

No lonely pomp shall weigh thee down ; 
Crowned -with the myriads, round His throne, 

And casting at His feet thy crown. 




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PRAYER OUT OF THE DEPTHS. i 

ALL in weakness, all in sorrow, 
O my God ! I come once more, 
Lifting np the sad petition 

Thou hast often heard before, 
In the former days of darkness, 
In the time of need of yore. 

For a present help in trouble 

Thou hast never ceased to be. 
Since at first a weeping sinner 

Fell before Thee trustingly ; 
And Thy voice is ever sounding : 

" O ye weary ! come to Me." 

Lord, Thou knowest all the weakness 

Of the creatures Thou hast made, 
For with mortal imperfection 

Thou didst once Thy glory shade ; 
Tliou hast loved and Thou hast sorrowed, 

In the veil of flesh arrayed. 

Thus I fear not to approach Thee 

With my sorrow and my care ; 
Hear my mourning supplication. 

Cast not out my humble prayer ! 



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188 PRAYER OUT OF THE DEPTHS. 



Lay not on a greater burden 
Than Thy feeble child can bear! 

Earth has lost its best attractions, 
All the brightest stars are gone — 

'All is clouded now and cheerless, 
Where so long a glory shone : 

Where I Avalked Avitli loved companions, 
I must Avandcr now alone. 

All is dark on the horizon, 
Clouds returning after rain ; 

Faith is languid, Hope is weary, 
And the questions rise again : 
" Doth the promise fail for ever ? 

Hast thou made all men in vain ? ' 

O my God ! rebuke the tempter, 

Let not unbelief prevail ! 
Pray for me. Thy feeble servant. 

That my weak faith may not fail, 
Nor my Hope let go her anchor 

AVhen the waves and storms assail I 

All these passing changing shadows, 
All these brief, bright joys below — 

Let me grasp them not so closely, 
Nor desire nor prize them so ! 





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Nor endure this bitter anguish 

AVhen Thou bid'st me let them go ! 

Redeemer ! shall one perish 
Who has looked to Thee for aid ? 

Let mc see Thee, let me hear Thee, 
Through the gloomy midnight shade ; 

Let me hear Thy voice of comfort : 
" It is I j be not afraid ! " 

For when feeling Tliou art near me, 

All my loneliness is o'er, 
And the tempter's dark suggestions 

Can oppress my soid no more ; 

1 shall dread the path no longer 

Where Thyself hast gone before. 

And the lights of earth all fading. 



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I can gaze on tearlessly, 
When the glory that excelleth, 

When the light of Ufe 1 sec. 
Whom besides, in earth or heaven. 

Should my heart desire, but Thee ? 



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SHE knew not what for tliem slio sought, 
At His right hand and left to sit ! 
How great the gh)ry, passing thought ; 
How rough the path that led to it. 

They knew not what of Him they asked ! 

But He their deeper sense distilled. 
Gently the selfish wisii unmasked, 

But all the prayer of love fulfilled. 

Pride sought to lift herself on high, 
And heard but of the bitter cup ; 

Love would but to her Lord be nigh, 
And won her measure full — heaped up 

With vision of His glory blessed ; 

Stood on the mountain by His side ; 
Leaned, at the Supper, on His breast ; 

Stood close beneath Him when He died. 

One brother shared His cup of woe — 
The second of His martyr-band : 

One, by His glory smitten low, 

Rose at the touch of His ri^rht hand. 



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MEMORIES. 191 



Thus, wlien by earth's cross lights perplexed, 
We crave the thing that should not be, 

God, reading right our erring text, 

Gives what we would ask, could we sec. 




MEMORIES 

WHEN fall the evening shadows, long and 
deep, across the hill ; 
When all the air is fragrance, and all the breezes 
still ; 

When the summer sun seems pausing above the 

mountain's brow, 
As if he left reluctantly a scene so lovely now ; 

Then I linger on the pathway, and I fondly gaze, 

and long, 
iVs if reading some old story those deep purple 

clouds among ; 

Then Memory approaches, holding up her magic 
glass, 

Pointing to familiar figures, which across the sur- 
face pass. 




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And often do I (pcstion, as I view that pliantom 

train, 
Whether most with joy or sadness I behold them 

thus afijain. 

They are there, those scenes of beauty, wliore 

life's brightest hours have fled, 
And I haste, with dear companions, the old patlis 

again to tread ; 

But, suddenly dissolving, all the loveliness is flown, 
And I fmd a thorny wilderness, where I must 
walk alone. 

Thou art there, so loved and honored, as in each 

ibrmer hour, 
AVhen we read thine eye's deep meaning, when 

we heard thy words of power ; 

When our souls, as willing captives, have sought 

to follow thine, 
Tracing the eternal footsteps of JNIight and Love 

Divine. 

But o'er that cherished image falls a veil of clouds 

and gloom, 
And beside a bier I tremble, or I weep above a 

tomb. 

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And ever will the question come, O Memory ! 

again, 
Wbetlier in thy magic mirror there is most of 

bhss or pain ? 

"Would I not wish the brightness were for ever hid 
from view, 

U but those hours of darkness could be all for- 
gotten too ? 

Then, weary and desponding, my spirit seeks to 

rise 
Away from earthly conflicts, from mortal smiles 

or siffhs. 

I do not think the blessed ones with Jesus have 

forgot 
The changing joys and sorrows which have marked 

their earthly lot ; 

15 ut now, on Memory's record their eyes can 

calmly dwell ; - 
They can see, what here they trusted— (God hath 

done all things well ;) 

And vain regrets and longings are as old tilings 
passed away ; 

No shadows dim the sunshine of that bright eter- 
nal day ! 




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THE WIDOW OF NAIX. 

rr^ HY miracles are no state splendors 
JL Whose pomps Thy daily works excel ,' 
The rock which breaks the stream, but renders 
Its constant current audible. 

The power which startles us in thunders 

Works ever silently in light ; 
And mightier than these special wondere, 

The wonders daily in our sight. 

Rents in the veils Thy works that fold, 
They let the inner light shine through : 

The rent is new, the light is old, 
Eternal, never ever new. 

And, therefore, when Thy touch arrests 
The bearers of that tier at Nain, 

Warm on unnumbered hearts it rests, 
Though yet their dead live not again. 

And Thy compassionate " Weep not ! " 
On this our tearful earth once heard, 

For every ago with comfort fraught, 
Tells how Thy heart is ever stirred. 







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195 



Nature repeats the tale each year, 

She feels Thy touch through countless springs, 
And, rising from her wintery bier. 

Throws off her grave-clothes, lives and sings. 

And when Thy touch through earth shall thrill 
This bier whereon our race is laid, 

And, for the fu'st time standing still, 
The long procession of the dead 

At Tliy " Arise ! " shall wake from clay, 
Young, deathless, freed from every stain ; 

When Thy " Weep not ! " shall wipe away 
Tears that shall never come a^ain : 

"When the strong chains of death are bursfc, 
And lips long dumb begin to speak, 
/ What name will each then utter first ? 
What music shall that silence break ?, 



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PATHWAYS OF THE HOLY LAND. 

rilllE pathways of Thy land are little ohangcl 
_1_ Since Thon wert there ; 

'Uhe biL>y ^Yorld through other •ways has rangeil. 
And lelt these hare. 



The rocky path still climbs the glowing steep 

Of Olivet, 
Though rains of two niillennluuis wear it deep, 

JNIcn tread it yet. 

SllU to the gardens o'er (lie brook it leacL^, 

Quiet and low : 
Before his sheep the shepherd on it trea'-Ls, 

His voice thev know. 



The wild fig throws broad shadows o'er it still, 

As once o'er Thee ; 
Peasants go home at evening Tip that hill 

To Bethany. 

And, as when gazing Thou didst Aveep o'er (hem. 

From height to height 
'I'he white roofs of discrowned Jerusalem 

Burst on our .siixht. 



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These Avays were strewed with garments once, and 
pahii, 
Which wc tread tlius ; 
Here, through Tliy triuinpli, on Thou passcdst, 
cahn, 
On to Thy cross. 

The vravcL; have waslied fresh sands upon the shore 

Of* Galilee; 
But, cliisellcd in the liill-sldes, evermore 

Thy paths we sec. 

Man lias not changed them in that slumbering 
land, 

Nor time eflaced ; 
Where Thy feet trod to bless, we still may stand ; 

All can be traced. 



Yet we have traces of Tliy footsteps far 

Truer than these ; 
Where'er the poor, and tried, and sulTering aro, 

Thy steps faith sees. 



Nor with ibnd sad regrets Thy steps we traco ; 
Thou art not dead I 

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198 FOU THE NEW YE Alt. 

Our path is onward, till we see Thy face, 
And hear Thy tread. 

And now, wherever meets Thy lowliest band 

In praise and prayer. 
There is Thy presence, there Thy Holy Land, 

Thou, Thou, art there 1 



FOR THE NEW YEAR. 

ANOTHER year! another year 
Has borne its record to the skies 
Another year ! another year, 

Untried, unproved, before us lies ; 
We hail with snules its dawning ray — 
How shall we meet its final day ? 



Another year, another year ! 

Its squandered ho-urs will ne'er returr 
Oil ! many a heart must quail with fear 

O'er memory's blotted page to turn. 
No record from that leaf »vill fade, 
Not one erasure may be made. 




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Another year, another year ! 

How many a grief lias marked Its flight 
Some whom we love, no more are here — 

Translated to the realms of light. 
Ah ! none can bless the coming year 
Like those no more to greet us here. 

Another year, another year ! 

Oh I many a blessing, too, was given, 
(^ur lives to deck, our hearts to cheer, 

And antedate the joys of heaven ; 
But they, too, slumber in the past, 
Where joys and griefs must sink at last. 

Another year, another year ! 

Gaze we no longer on the past, 
Nor let us shrink, with faithless fear, 

From the dark shade the future casts. 
The past, the future — what are they 
To those whose lives may end to-day ? 

Another year, another year ! 

Perchance the last of life below. 
Who, ere its close. Death's call may hear 

None but the Lord of life can know. 
Oh ! to be found, whene'er that day 
May come, prepared to pass away. 



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200 TITE PERPETUITY OF JOY IX HEAVEN. 



Anotlier year, another year I 

Help us earth's thorny path to treat! ; 
So may each moment brhig us near 

To Thee, ere yet our lives are fled. 
Saviour ! we yield ourselves to Theo, 
For time and for eternity. 



TUE PERPETUITY OF JO Y IK HE A YEN 

HERE brief is the sighing, 
And brief is the crying, 
For brief is the life ! 
The life there is endless, 
The joy there is endless. 
And ended the strife. 

What joys are in heaven ? 
To whom are they given ? 

Ah ! what ? and to whom ? 
The stars to the earth-born, 
" Best robes " to the sin-worn, 

Tlie crown for the doom I 

O country the fairest ! 
Our country the dearest. 



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We press tOAvard thee ! 
O Slon the golden I 
Our eyes now are holden, 

Thy light till we see : 

Thy crystalline ocean, 
Un vexed by commotion, 

Thy fountain of life ; 
Thy deep peace unspoken, 
Pure, sinless, unbroken — 

Thy peace beyond strife : 

TTiy meek saints all glorious, 
Thy martyrs victorious, 

Who suffer no more ; 
Thy halls full of singing, 
Thy hymns ever ringing 

Along Thy safe shore. 

Like the lily for whiteness, 
Like the jewel for brightness, 

Thy vestments, O Bride I 
The Lamb ever with thee, 
The Bridegroom is with thoo— 

With thee to abide ! 

We know not, we know not. 
All human words show not, 



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202 THROUGH THE FLOOD ON FOOT. 



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The joys we may reach ; 

The mansions preparing, 

The joys for our sharing, 

The welcome for each. 

O Sion the golden I 
My eyes still are holden, 

Thy light till I see ; 
And deep in thy glory, 
Unveiled then before me, 

My Iving, look on thee 



THROUGH THE FLOOD ON FOOT. 

THE sun had sunk in the West 
For a little while, 
And the clouds which gathered to see him die 
Had caught his dying smile. 

We sat In the door of our Tent, 

In the cool of the day. 
Toward the quiet meadow 

Where misty shadows lay. 

The great and terrible Land 
Of wilderness and drought. 




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Timouan the flood on foot. 20 



Lay in the shadows behind us, 
For the Lord had brought us out. 

The great and terrible River, 
Though sliroudcd still from view, 

Lay in the shadows before us, 
But the Lord would bear us through. 

In the stillness and the starlight, 

In sight of the Blessed Land, 
Wc thought of the bygone Desert-life, 

And the burning, blinding sand. 

Many a dreary sunset. 

Many a dreary dawn, 
Wc had watched upon those desert hills 

As we pressed slowly on. 

Yet sweet had been the silent dews 
Which from God's presence fell, 

And the still hours of restinji 
By Palm-tree and by Well, 

Till we pitched our Tent at last, 

The Desert done, 
Where we saw the hills of the Holy Land 

Gleam in our sinking sun . 



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And we sat in tlie door of our Tent, 

In the cool of the day, 
Toward the quiet meadow 

"Where misty shadows lay : 

"We were talking about the King, 

And our elder Brother, 
As we were used often to speak 

One to another^ 

The Lord standing quietly by. 

In the shadows dim, 
Smiling perhaps, in the dark, to hear 

Our sweet, SAveet talk of Him. 

« I think in a little while," 

I said at length, 
" We shall see Ilis face in the city 

Of everlasting strength ; 

^' And sit down under the shadow 
Of His smile, 
"With great delight and thanksgiving, 
To rest awhile." 

" But the River — the awful River I 
In the dying light," 




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And even as he spoke, the murmur 
Of a River rose on the night I 

And One came up through the meadow, 

Where the mists lay dim, 
Till He stood by my friend in the star-light, 

And spake to him : 

" I have come to call thee Home," 

Said our veiled Guest ; 
" The terrible journey of life is done, 

I will take thee into Rest. 

" Arise ! thou shalt come to the Palace, 
To rest thee for ever ;" 
And He pointed across the dark meadow, 
And down to the River. 

And my friend rose up in the shadows, 
And turned to me — 
" Be of good cheer," I said faintly, 
" For He calleth thee." 

For I knew by His loving voice, 

His kingly word. 
The veiled Guest in the star-light dim 

Was Christ, the Lord 1 



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206 THROTIGn THE FLOOD ON FOOT. 




So "we three went slowly down 

To the Kiver-side, 
Till we stood in the heavy shadows 

By the black, wild tide. 

I could hear that the Lord was speaking 

Deep words of grace, 
I could see their blessed reflection 

On my friend's pale face. 

The strong and desolate tide 

"NYas hurrying wildly past. 
As he turned to take my hand once more, 

And say Farewell, at last. 

•'Farewell — I cannot fear. 

Oh ! seest tliou His grace ?" 

And even as he spoke, he turned 

Again to the Master's Face. 

So they two went closer down 

To the River-side, 
And stood in the heavy shadows 

By the black, wild tide. 

But when the feet of the Lord 
Were come to the waters dim, 

They rose to stand, on either hand_. 
And left a path for Him 5 



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THBOlTGn THE FLOOD OJfT FOOT. 207 



So they two passed over swiftly 

Toward the Goal, 
But the wistful, longing gaze 

Of the i^assing soul 

Grew only more rapt and joyful 
As he clasped the Master's hand , 

I think, or ever he was aware 
They were come to the Holy Land. 

Now I sit alone In the door of my Tent 

In the cool of the day, 
Toward the quiet meadow 

\\Tierc misty shadows play. 

The great and terrible Land 

Of wilderness and drouo-ht. 
Lies in the shadows behind me. 

For the Lord hath brought me out ; 

Tlie great and terrible River 

I stood that night to view. 
Lies in the shadows before me. 

But the Lord will beai- me througli. 



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THE LONG GOOD-NianT. 

IJOUIINEY forth rejoicing, 
From this dai'k vale of tears, 
To heavenly joy and freedom, 

From earthly bonds and fears ; 
Where Christ our Lord shall gather 

All His redeemed again, 
Ilis kingdom to inherit. 

Good-night, till then ! 

Go to thy quiet resting, 

Poor tenement of clay ! 
From all thy pain and weakness 

I gladly haste away ; 
But still in faith confiding 

To find thee yet again, 
All glorious and immortal. 

Good-night, till then ! 



Why thus so sadly weeping, 
Beloved ones of my heart ? 

'Fhe Lord is good and gracious, 
Though now He bids us parfc. 



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Oft have we met in gladness, 

And -vve shall meet again, 
All sorrow left behind us. 

Good-night, tiU then I 

I go to see Ilis glory, 

Whom we have loved below : 
I go, the blessed angels, 

The holy samts to know. 
Our lovely ones departed, 

I go to find again. 
And wait for you to join us. 

Good-night, till then ! 

1 hear the Saviour callins: — 
The joyful hour has come : 

The angel-guards are ready 
To guide me to our home, 

Where Christ our Lord shall gather 
All His redeemed again, 

His kingdom to inherit. 

Good-night, till then 






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210 FOOTSTEPS ON' TUB OTHER SIDE. 



FOOTSTEPS ON- THE OTHER STDE, 

Oi ITTING in my humble doorway, 
Kjy Gazing out into the night, 
Listening to the stormy tumult 

With a kind of sad delight — 
AYait I for the loved who comes not, 

One whose step I long to hear ; 
One who, though he lingers from me, 

Still is dearest of the dear. 
Soft ! he comes — now heart, be quick — 

Leaping in triumphant pride ! 
Oh ! it is a stranger footstep, 

Gone by on the other side. 

All the night seems filled with weeping 

AVInds are wailing mournfully ; 
And the rain-tears together 

Journey to the restless sea. 
I can fancy, sea, your murmur, 

As they with your waters flow. 
Like the griefs of single beings. 

Making up a nation's woe ! 

Branches, bid your guests be silent ; 

Hush a moment, fretful rain ; 
Breeze, stop sighing — let me listen, 

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In my check the blood Is rosy, 
Like the blushes of a bride. 

Joy ! Alas ! a stranger footstep 
Goes on by the other side. 

All ! how many wait for ever 

For the steps that do not come ! 
Wait until the pitying angels 

Bear them to a peaceful home ! 
Many in the still of midnight 

In the streets have lain and died, 
While the sound of human footsteps 

Went by on the other side. 



GONE HOME. 

&ONE home! Gone home! She lingers 
here no longer 
A restless pilgrim, walking painfully, 
With homesick longing, daily grooving stronger, 
And yearning visions of Ihe joys to be. 

Gone home! Gone home I Ilcr earnest, active 
spirit. 

Her very playfulness, her heart of love ! 
The heavenly mansion now she doth inherit, 

"Wliich Christ made ready ere she went above. 



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Grone home J Gone home ! The door through 
which she vanished 

Closed with a jar, and left us here alone. 
We stand without, in tears, forlorn and banished, 

Longing to follow where one loved has gone. 

Gone home Gone home ! Oh ! shall we cvci 
reach her. 
See her again, and know her for our own ? 
% Will she conduct us to the heavenly Teacher, 

And bow beside us, low before His throne ? 

Gone home! Gone home! O human-hearted 
Saviour ! 

Give us a balm to soothe our heavy woe \ 
And if Thou wilt, in tender, pitying favor, 

Hasten the time when we may rise and go I 




FUNERAL HYMN. 

GOME forth ! come on, with solemn song : 
The road is short, the rest is long. 
The Lord brought here, H? calls away 

Make no delay, 
This home was for a passing day. 




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Here ill an inn a stranger dwelt, 
Here joy and grief by turns he felt ; 
Poor dwelling, now we elosc thy door I 

The task is o'er, 
The sojourner returns no morc- 

Now of a lasting home possessed, 
lie goes to seek a deeper rest. 
Good-night ! the day was sultry hero 

In toil and fear ; 
Good-night ! the nignt is cool and clear. 

Chime on, ye bells ! again begin, 
And ring the Sabbath mornino- in. 
The laborer's week-day work is done, 

The rest begun, 
Which Christ hath for His peoi)le won. 

Xow open to us gates of peace ! 
Here let the pilgrim's journey cease ; 
"Ye quiet slumberers, make room 

In }'our still home 
For the new stranger who has come I 



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How many graves around us lie ! 
How many homes arc in the sky! 



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Tos, for cacli saint doth Christ prepare 

A pkce with care. 
Thy home is waiting, brother, there. 

Jesus, Tlioii reignest, Lord, alone ; 
Thou wilt return and claim Thmo OAvn. 
Come quickly. Lord ! return again ! 

Amen ! Amen I 
Xhine seal '.is ever, now and. then I 



WB ARE THE LORD'S. 

WE are the Lord's. His, earthly life and 
spirit I 
We are the Lord's, who once for all men died 1 
"We are the Lord'??, and shall all things inherit ! 
We are the Lord's, who wins us all beside ! 

We are the Lord's ! So in most holy living, 
Glad let ns, body, soul, be His alone ; 

And heart and mouth, and act join, witness giving 
Tliat it is surely true : we are His own ! 

Wc are the Lord's ! So in the dark vale gleaming, 
One star dispels our fear, and keeping ward, 





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EUTEAKAST 215 

Dotli light our way with sweet unchangeful beam- 
ing: 
It is the precious Word. "\\''e're thine, O Lord ! 

\Vc arc the Lord's ! So will He on the morrow 
Watch our last pang, when other help rewards 

No pain, and Death brings not a touch of son-ow. 
Thb Word's for ever true : we are the Lord's. 



EUTHANASY. 

WE need no change of sphere 
To vicAV the heavenly sights, or hear 
The sono;s which anjiels sins. The hand 

Which gently pressed the sightless orbs ere 

while. 
Giving them hght, a world of beauty, and the 
friendly smile. 
Can cause our eyes to see the better land. 

AVe need no winjjs 

To soar aloft to realms of hisrher thlncrs 
But only feet which walk the paths of peace, 

Guided by Him whose voice 

Greets every ear, makes every heart rejoice, 
Saying, Arise, and Avalk where sorrows ceaso.. 




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Visiting spirits arc near ; 

They arc not wholly silent, but we can not hear 
Nor understand their speech. 

Our Saviour caught His Father's word, 

And men of old, dreaming and walking, heard 
The breathings of a world we can not reach. 

They mounted to the skies. 

And read deep mysteries. 
^^hilc yet on earth, they placed a ladder there 

Like Jacob's, that each round should lead, 

By prayer outspoken, in a word or deed, 
The soul to heights of clearer, purer air. 

They saw no messenger of gloom 

In him whom we call Death, nor met their doom 
As prisoner his sentence ; but naturally, as bud 
unfolds to flower. 

As child to man, so man to angel — 

They recognizing death the glad evangel, 
Leading to higher scenes of life and power. 




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THE ELEVENTH HOUR. 

lAINT and -woni and aged 

One stands knocking at a gate 
Though no b'ght shines in the casement, 

Knocking though so late. 
It has struck eleven 
In the courts of heaven, 

Yet lie still doth knock and wait. 

^Vlllle no answer comcth 

From the heavenly hill. 
Blessed angels wonder 

At his earnest will. 
Hope and fear but quicken 
NVliile the shadows thicken : 

He is knocking, knocking stili. 

Grim the gate unopened 

Stands with bar and lock : 
Yet within the unseen Porter 

Hearkens to the knock. 
Doing and undohig, 
Faint and yet pursuing, 

This man's feet are on the Rock. 




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2 1 8 THE ELEVENTH EO UE, 




With a cry unceasing, 
Knocketh, prayeth lie : 
" Lord, have mercy on rce 
When I cry to Thee." 

With a knock unceasing, 

-And a cry increasing: 

" O my Lord ! remember me," 



Still the Porter stand eth, 

Love-constrained He standeth near) 
While the cry increaseth 

Of that love and fear : 
" Jesus, look upon me — 
Christ, hast Thou foregone me ? — 

If I must, I perish here." 

Faint the knocking ceases, 

Faint the cry and call : 
Is he lost indeed for ever. 

Shut without the wall ? 
Mighty Arms surround him. 
Arms that sought and found him, 

Held, withheld, and bore through all. 

O celestial mansion ! 
Open wide the door : 



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''BBIJ^aiKG OUR SHEAVES WITH USy 219 



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Crown and robes of whiteness, 

Stone inscribed before, 
Flocking angels bear them ; 
Stretch thy hand and wear iheiu ; 

Sit thou down for evermore. 



''.BRINGiya OUR SHEAVES WITH USJ' 

THE time for toil is past, and night has come, 
The last and saddest of the harvest eves ; 
Worn out with labor long and wearisome, 
Drooping and faint, the reapers hasten home, 
Each laden with his sheaves. 

Last of the laborers, Tliy feet I gain. 

Lord of the harvest ! and my spirit grieves 
That I am burdened, not so much with grain 
As with a heaviness of heart and brain. 
JMaster, behold ray sheaves ! 



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Few, light, and worthless — yet their trifling weight 

Through all ray frame a weary aching leaves ; 
For long I struggled with my hapless fate, 
Ajid staid and tolled till it was dark and late — 
Yet these are all my sheaves ! 



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220 ''BRmGING OUR SBHAYES WITH US.^ 



Full well I knoAv I have more tares than wheat — 
Brambles and flowers, dry stalks, and witheied 
leaves ; 

Wherefore I blush and weep, as at Thy feet 

I kneel down reverently, and repeat, 
" Master, behold my sheaves 1" 

[ know these bloGsoms, clustenng heavily 

^Vitli evenhig dew upon their folded IcavcB, 
Can claim no value nor utility — 
Therefore shall fragrancy and beauty bo 
The glory of my sheaves. 

So do I gather strength and hope anew ; 

For well I know thy patient love perceives 
Not what I did, but what I strove to do — 
And though the full, ripe ears be sadly few. 

Thou wilt accept my sheaves. 




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INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



PAGE 

Ail ia "Known ^o Thee, 20 

A Little AVhile, 45 

Alone, yet not Alone, 51 

Anchor within the Veil, the, 109 

All is Light, 123 

Asleep on Guard, 132 

All ia Christ, 163 

Abide with Us, 170 

Border Lands, the, IS 

Bridegroom's Dove, the, S5 

Bridges, , 126 

Burial of Moses, the, 138 

Better Life, the, 172 

[Jringing our Sheaves with Us, 219 

Changed Cross, the, 5 

Call, the, S2 

Ci'oss and Crown, the, S6 

Coming, 116 

Christian and His Echo, the, 144 

Comfort by theWay,... 147 

Christmas Ilj-mn, a, lo'i 

Communion with God, 15S 

Cross, the, ISo 

Crown, the, , 1S6 

Delectable Mountains, the,, 107 

Distractions in Prayer, 113 

Drawing Water, 175 

Evening Prayer, , C2 

Even Me, 87 

Eleveuth Hour, the, 217 



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Eulhanasy, , 215 

Faith's Repose, 1C6 

Father, take my Hand, 12S 

For the New Year, 199 

Footsteps on the Other Side, , 210 

Funeral Hymn, 212 

Gone Home, 211 

God our Strength, 15 

God, my Exceeding Joy, C 9 

God's Support and Guidance,.... 41 

God's Anvil, 85 

Grief was sent for thy Good, 90 

God's Ways, Ill 

Gracious Answer, the, 139 

Holy Tears, , 18 

Hinder me Not, 47 

Heaven, , 58 

Hour of Prayer, the, 134 

Elymn of Trust, 187 

Himself hath Done It, 165 

I Am, 43 

I Cling to Thee, 50 

In Heaven, 72 

Itjsl; Be not Afraid, 75 * j 

It is Well, 1S3 

Lost Treasures, 25 

Leave Me not Now, 105 

Longings, 124 

!jight in Darkness, 157 

living Waters, 107 

Long Good-Night, the, 208 

Less and More, 146 >^ 

Meeting riacc, the, 9 g 

My Times are in Thy Hand, 16 

Mary's Choice, 32 

My Lambs, 78 

My Guest 114 




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Bllaistry, ISl 

Memories, ,... 191 

Near Home, 88 

Near Jesus, C6 

Nature and Faiili, 70 

No^v, 141 

Need of Jesus, the, 142 

Oh! for the Happy Days Gone By, 22 

One by One, 81 

Oh! to be Ready, 84 

Oh ! my Saviour Crucified, 89 

Onward, 95 

Lord! Thou Knowest, 179 

Pilgrim, the,. 11 

Pilgrim's Wants, the, 50 

Pilgrim of Earth, 69 

Peace of God, the, 89 

Peace, 91 

Prayer for Strength, 93 

Pray for whom tliou Lovcst, 174 

Perpetuity of Joy in Heaven, 200 

Pathways of the Holy Land, 196 

Prayer out of the Depths 187 

Quiet Mind, a, 121 

Return thee to thy Rest, 65 

Retrospect, 148 

Sunday, 27 

School of Suffering, 52 

Supt)Iication, 61 

Sc2nes on Jordan's Strand, 97 

Sufferer cheered, the, 161 

Salome, 190 

There is Light Beyond, , 99 

Thy Will Be Done, '. 135 

Thy Will Be Done, 102 

They shall be Mine, 103 



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PAQH 

Tempest-Tossed, the, 14G 

Time for Prayer, the, 156 

True Dream, a, 177 

Through the Flood on Foot, 202 

Voice from Heaven, a, 59 

Verdict of Death, tlie, 153 

Wandering Heart, the, 03 

"Wholly Resigned, 15 

Who is roy Brother? €8 

What is this tlaat He Saith? 71 

Widow of Nain, the, , 194 

Way, tho Truth, and tho Life, tho, IDl 

Wc arc tho Lord's, ,,,, 211 








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INDEX TO FIRST LINES. 



After long days of storms and showera, 27 

Alas! for the wildly wandering heart, C3 

Amid the shadows and the fears, 109 

All in weakness, all in sorrow, 137 

Another year, another year, 193 

Beyond the smiling and the weeping, 45 

Bej'ond the stars that shine in golden glory, 99 

By Nebo's lonely mountain, 18S 

Breezes of spring, all earth to life awakiag, 157 

Christ leads us through no darker rooma, 15 

Come forth ! come on with solemn oong, 212 

Early my spirit turned, 89 

Father, I know that all my life, 16 

Father, Into Thy loving hands, IS 

Forsake me not, my God, 41 

Father of mercy ! at the close of day, 62 

Father 1 before Thy footstool kneeling, 93 

Four little words, no more, 101 

Father, beneath Thy sheltering wing, 106 

Faint, and worn, and aged, 217 

Gone home 1 gone home ! She lingers here no longer, 211 

Hinder me not! the path is long and weary, .... 47 

How few who from their youthful day, Ill 

How doth Death speak of our beloved, 150 

Himself hath done it all, 105 

Here brief is the sighing, ^ 200 

It was a time of sadness, and my heart, 5 

I want that adorning divine, 5G 

I shiuo in the light of God, 59 

I Tanttolirc near Jesus, ^ €C 




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I loved them so, 78 

I sec them far away, 107 

I cannot pray ; yet, Lord, Thou knowest, 118 

I have a vronderful Guest, 114 

It may be in the evening, 116 

I have a treasure which I prize, 121 

I have a bridge within my heart, 126 

I need Thee, precious Jesus, 142 

I journey through a desert drear and wild, 1-17 

In human form enthroned, 153 

In thee, my heart, Jesus 1 finds repooe, 163 

In some wild Eastern legend the story has been told, 167 

I had drank with lips unsated, ■. ... 175 

I dreamt we danced in careless glee, 177 

I journey foi-th rejoicing, 205 

Jesus, engrave it on my heart, 5^2 

Let us be patient, God has taken from us, 25 

Lord, hear my prayer, 61 

Lord, I hear of showers of blessing, 87 

Life's mystery — deep, restless as the ocean, SI 

Leave me not now while still the shade is creeping, 105 

Lord, I am come along with Thee, 158 

Man, in his weakness, needs a stronger stay, 15 

My God, whose gracious pity I may claim, , 20 

My Dove I The Bridegroom speaks, 85 

Must I my brother keep, 6S 

Must Jesus bear the cross alone 36 

My God, is any hour so sweet, 134 

Oh I for the happy days gone by, 22 

One by one the sands are flowing, 81 

One sweetly solemn thought, 83 

Oh ! to be ready when death shall come, 84 

holy Saviour 1 Friend unseen, 50 

Oh I heaven is nearer than mortals think, 68 

O Loving One ! Bounteous One ! 148 

Oh t for the peace which flowcth as a river, 71 

my Saviour cruciflod, 89 



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shame! we're sometimes fain to say, 1S2 

Love Divine! Ui at stooped to share, 187 

Pilgrim of earth, who art journeying to hcavoc, 69 

Pain's furnace-heat within me quivers, 85 

Return, return thee to thy only rest, (JT' 

Rise! for the day is passing, 141 

Otill onward through this land of foes, 11 

Saviour, beneath Thy yoke, f)2 

Silence Qlled the courts of heaven, 72 

Some there are who seem exempted, , 96 

Say! shall I take the thorn away ? 161 

Since service is the highest lot, 181 

So they said who saw the wonders, 1S8 

She knew not what for them she sought, 190 

Sitting in my humble doorway, 210 

Thou bidd'st us call, 43 

Tossed with rough winds and faint with fear, 75 

The night was dark ; behold, the shade was deeper, 82 

Traveller, faint not on the road, 95 

There came a little child with sunny hair, 97 

They shall be mine, 103 

The way is dark, my Father, 12S 

The way is dark, my child, 130 

True faith, producing love to God and man, 144 

Two Prayers, dear Lord, in One, 146 

Thou art the Way, 154 

The tender light is fading where, 170 

Thcu knowest, Lord, the weariness and sorrow, 179 

Tlie strongest light casts deepest shade, ISf) 

Thou shalt be crowned, mother blest ! ISC 

Thy miracles are no state splendors, 194 

The pathways of Thy land are little changed, 190 

The sun had sunk In the west, 202 

The time for toil is past, 219 

Wo arc the Lord's. 1 lis, earthly life and Bpirit, 214 

We need DC change of sphere, 215 



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Where tba faded flower sball freshen, G 

When no kind earthly friend is near, 51 

We wept — 'twas Nature wept, but Faith, T6 

We ask for peace, Lord 1 89 

What though storm-clouds gather round me, 123 

When shall I be at rest? 124 

We see not, know not, all our way, 135 

When is the time for prayer ? 156 

When we reach a quiet dwelling, 172 

When fall the evening shadows long and deep IDl 

res, thou may'st weep, 13 

Wes, pray for whom thou lovcct, . 174 






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Shadow of the Rogk^ 



Other religious poems. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1806, by 
ANSON D. r. EANDOPLH, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern 
District of New York. 



r. 0. JGN<IN3, PRINTER AND STEnEOTYI-LU. 
£0 NOnril WILLIAM F.T., N. V. 



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CONSIDER. 

Consider 
The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief 

We are as thev ; 

Like them we fade away. 
As doth a leaf. 

Consider 
The sparrows of the air of small account ; 

Our God cloth view 
Whether they fall or mount — 

He guards us too. 

Consider 
The lilies that do neither spin nor toil. 

Yet are most fair ; 

What profits all this care 
And all this toil ? 

Consider 
The birds that have no barn nor harvest weeks 

God gives them food ; 
Much more our Father seeks 

To do us good. 

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The Poems contained in tiiis Volume nave 
Deen selected from many sources, and, so far as 
known, the names of the authors appended.' The 
publisher has designed it as a companion-book to 
The Changed Cross, which has proved so accept- 
able tc a large class of Christian readers. 



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THE 



SHADOW OF THE ROCK 



AND OTHER POEMS. 



THE SHADOW OF THE ROCK. 

mHE Shadow of the Rock ! 
X Stay, Pilgrim, stay ! 
Night treads upon the heels of day ; 
There is no other resting-place this way. 
The Rock is near, 
The well is clear — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock I 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
The desert wide 
Lies round thee like a trackless tide, 
In waves of sand forlornly multiplied. 
The sun is gone, 
Thou art alone — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock I 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
All come alone ; 

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<r* 8 TEE SHADOW OF THF BOCK. ^ 

All, eyer since the sun liatli shone, 

Who traveled by this road have come alone. 

Be of good cheer — 

A home is here — 
Rest in th^ Shadow of the Rock I 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
Kight veib the land ; 
How the palms whisper as they stand i 
How the well tinkles faintly through the sand 1 
Cool water take 
Thy thirst to slake — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock ! 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
Abide ! Abide ! 
This Rock moves ever at thy side. 
Pausing to welcome thee at eventide. 
Ages are laid 
Beneath its shade — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock I 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
Always at hand. 
Unseen it cools the noon-tide land, 
And quells the fire that flickers in the sand. 
It comes in sight 
Only at night — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock 1 

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The Shadow of the Rock ! 
'Mid skies storm-riven 
It gathers shadows out of heaven, 
And holds them o'er us ail night cool and even, 
Through the charmed air 
Dew falls not there — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock ! 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
To angels' eyes 
This Rock its shadow multiplies, 
And at this hour in countless places lies. 
One Rock, one shade, 
O'er thousands laid — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock ! 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
To weary feet. 
That have been diligent and fleet. 
The sleep is deeper and the shade more sweet 
O weary, rest ! 
Thou art sore pressed — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock ! 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
Thy bed is made ; 
Crowds of tired souls like thine are laid 
This night beneath the self-same placid shade. 



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I ] mGTIT SONG. 



They who rest here 
"Wake with Heaven near — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock I 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
Pilgrim ! sleep sound ; 
In night's swift hours with silent bound, 
The Rock will put thee over leagues of ground, 
Gaining more way 
By night than day — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock ! 

The Shadow of the Rock ! 
One day of pain, 
Thou scarce wilt hope the Rock to gain, 
Yet there wilt sleep thy last sleep on the plain 
And only wake 
In Heaven's daybreak — 
Rest in the Shadow of the Rock ! 

FABER. 



NI O HT SONG. 

HEART, be still ! 
In the darkness of thy woe. 
Bow thee silently and low ; 
Comes to thee whate'er God will ;— 
Be thou still I 






maiiT SGNG, 



11 



Be tliou still ! 
Vainly all thy words are spoken ; 
Till the Word of God hath broken 
Life's dark mysteries— good or ill— 

Be thou still ! 

Sleep thou still ! 
'Tis thy Father's work of grace, 
Wait thou yet before His face, 
He'll thy sure deliverance will ; 

Keep thou still ! 

Lord my God ! 
By thy grace, O may I be 
All-submission, silently, 
To the chastenings of thy rod ; 

Lord my God ! 

Shepherd, King ! 
From thy fullness, grant to me 
Still, yet fearless faith In Thee, 
Till, from night the day shall spring 1 

Shepherd, King ! 

FROM THE GERMAN, 







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12 UPWARD. 



UP W A R D! 



UPAVARD, wLere tlie stars are burning, 
Silent, silent in their turning- 
Round the never-changing pole ; 
Upward, where the sky is brightest, 
Upward, where the blue is lightest, 
Lift I now my longing soul ! 

Far above that arch of gladness, 
Far beyond those clouds of sadness, 

Are the many mansions fair ! 
Far from pain, and sin, and folly, 
In that palace of the holy, 

I v/ould find my mansion there ! 

Where the glory brightly dwelleth, 
Where the new song sweetly sv/elleth, 

And the discord never comes ; 
Where life's stream is ever laving^ 
And the palm is ever waving — 

That must be the home of homes I 

Where the Lamb on high is seated, 
By ten thousand voices greeted, 
Lord of lords and King of kings 1 

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Son of man, they crown, they crown Him ! 
Son of God, they own, they own Him \ 
With His name the palace rings ! 

Blessing, honor, without measure, 
Heavenly riches, earthly treasure, 

Lay we at His blessed feet ! 
Poor the praise that now we render ; 
Loud shall be our voices yonder, 

When before His Throne we meet I 

BONAR, 



HE KNOWETH ALL. 

THE twilight falls, the night is near, 
I fold my work away. 
And kneel to One who bends to hear 
The story of the day. 

The old, old story ; yet I kneel 

To tell it at Thy call ; 
And cares grow lighter as I feel 

That Jesus knows them all. 

Yes, all I The morning and the night, 

The joy, the grief, the loss, 

The roughened path, the sunbeam bright, 

The hourly thorn and cross. 

o I 



X4 nOMJ^JWARDS. 

Thou knowest all — I lean my head, 

My weary eyelids close ; 
Content and glad awhile to tread 

This path, since Jesus knows ! 

And He has loved me ! All my heart 
With answering love is stin-ed, 

And every anguished paia and smart 
Finds healing in the Word. 

So here I lay me down to rest, 

As nightly shadows tall, 
And lean, confiding, on His breast, 

Who knows and pities all ! 



HOMEWARDS! 

DROPPING down the troubled river» 
To the tranquil, tranquil shore ; 
Dropping down the misty river, 
Time's willow-shaded river. 

To the spring-embosomed shore ; 
Where the sweet light shineth ever, 
And the sun goes down no more. 
O wondrous, wondrous shore I 

Dropping down the winding river, 
To the wide and welcome sea ; 



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Dropping down the naiTow river, 
Man's weary, wayward river, 

To the blue and ample sea ; 
Where no tempest wrecketh ever, 

Where the sky is fair and free ; 

O joyous, joyous sea ! 

Dropping down the noisy river, 

To our j)eaceful, peaceful home ; 
DrojDping down the tui'bid river, 
Earth's bustling, crowded river, 

To our gentle, gentle home ; 
Where the rough roar riseth never. 

And the vcxings cannot come ; 

O loved and longed for home ! 

Dropx)ing down the eddying river. 

With a Helmsman true and tried ; 
Dropping down the perilous river — 
Mortality's dark river, 

With a sm-e and Heavenly Guide ; 
Even Him who, to deliver 

My soul from death, hath died ; 

O Helmsman, true and tried ! 

Dropping down the rapid river. 

To the dear and deathless land ; 
Dropping down the well-known river, 
Life's swoU'n and rushiag river. 



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■"■^ IG THE LOVIISG CUP. ^ 

To the resurrection-land ; 
Where the living, live for ever, 
And the dead have joined the band ; 
O fair and blessed land ! 

BONAR 



7' HE LOVING CUF. 

COME, drink ye, drink ye, all, of it, 
Pale childi'en of a King ; 
Ko poison mingles in the draught. 

So, while ye suffer, sing. 
Tis Love's own Life hath won it us, 

Christ's lip hath pressed the brim, — 
Come, drink ye, drink ye, all, of it, 
In fellowslii]3 with Him ! 

O shun not thou the Loving Cup, 

Nor tremble at its hue ; 
There is no bitter in the bowl, 

But Jesus drank it, too. 
He counts thy tears, and knows thy pain, 

Yea, every woe is weighed ; 
And not a cross He bids thee bear, 

But once on Him was laid. 

Come, drink thou of the Loving Cup \ 
Thou wouldst not pass it by ? 

'Tis kept for every chosen one 
Of God's dear family ; 




THE SINNER'S FEIEND, 17 

Nor, unbelieving, turn aside ; 

The Lord the cup bestows ; 
And O His face, above thee bent, 

With love and pity glows I 

Those hands, once bleeding on the Cross, 

xire now outstretched to bless ; 
He draws thee closer to His heart 

For that draught's bitterness ; 
He hears thy faintly sobbing breath, 

He marks each quivering limb ; 
He drank a cup for thee alone — 

Child ! drink it now with Him. 

Let earth bring forth her bitter herbs, 

Soon all their power shall cease ; 
Come tribulation if it will, 

With Christ's abiding Peace. 
I take the cup — the Loving Cup, 

Thrice blessed shall it be ; 
I would not miss one gift, O Lord, 

Thy Blood hath bought for me ! 

ANNA sninoN. 



THE SINNERS FPdEND. 

OTHOU, the contrite sinner's Friend, 
Who loving, lov'st them to the end. 
On this alone my hopes depend, 
That Thou vv'ilt plead for me ! 



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When, weary in the Christian race, 
Far-off appears my resting-place, 
And fainting, I mistrust Thy grace — 
Then. Saviour, plead for me ! 

When I have err'd and gone astray 
Afjir from Thine and Wisdom's way, 
And see no glimmering guiding ray — 
Still, Saviour, plead for me ! 

When Satan, by my sins made bold. 
Strives from Thy cross to loose my hoLl, 
Then with Tliy pitying arms enfold, 
And plead, oh, j^lead for me ! 

And when my dvhig hour draws near, 
Darken'd with anguish, guilt, and fear, 
Then to my fainting sight appear. 
Pleading in Heaven for me ! 

When the full light of Heavenly day 
Reveals my sins in dread array, 
Say, Thou hast wash'd them all away ; 
Oh, say. Thou plead'st for me ! 

CHARLOTTE ELIJOT. 



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THE WAY IS LONG AND BliEARY 

THE way is long nnd dreary, 
The path is bleak and bare , 
i )ur feet are worn and weary, 

But we will not desi3air. 
More heavy was Thy burthen. 

More desolate Thy way ; 
O Lamb of God, who takest 
The sin of the world away, 
Have mercy on us ! 

The snovrs lie thick around us, 

In the dark and gloomy nio-ht • 
And the tempest wails above us, 

And the stars have hid their light. 
But blacker was the darkness 

Round Calvary's Cross that day. 
O Lamb of God, that takest 

The sin of the world away, 
Have mercy on us ! 

Our hearts are faint with sorrow, 

Heavy and sad to bear ; 
For we dread the bitter morrow 
. But we will not des])aii-. 

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Tliou knowest all our anguish. 
* And Thou Tvilt bid it cease. 

O Lamb of God ! who takest 
The sin of the world away, 
Give us Thy peace ! 

ADELAIDE A. PROCTEK. 



THE DEATH OF A BELlEVKll. 

ri^HE Apostle slept ; a light shone in the prison ; 
Jl An angel touched his side ; 
" Arise," he said, and quickly he hath risen, 
His fettered arms untied. 

Tlie watchers saw no light at midnight gleaming 

They heard no sound of feet ; 
The gates fly open, and the saint still dreaming, 

Stands free upon the street. 

Bo when the Christian's eyelid droops and closes 

In Nature's j)aii:ing strife, 
A friendly angel stands where he reposes 

To wake him up to life. 

He gives a gentle blow, and so releases 

The spirit from its clay ; 
From sin's temptations and fi'om life's distresses 

He bids it come away. 

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It rises up, and from its darksome mansion 

It takes its silent flight, 
And feels its freedom in the Inrge expansion 

Of Heavenly aii* and liglit. 

Behind, it hears Time's iron gates close faintly ; 

It is now far from tliem, 
For it has reached the city of the saintly, 

The new Jerusalem ! 

A voice is heard on earth of kinsfolk weej^ing 

The loss of one they love ; 
But he is gone where the redeemed are keeping 

A festival above. 

The mourners throng the way, and from the 
steeple 

The funeral-bell tolls slow ; 
But on the golden streets the holy people 

Are j)assing to and fro ; 

And saying, as they meet, " Rejoice ! another 

Long-waited-for is come ; 
The Saviour's heart is glad, a younger brother 

Hath reached the Father's home !" 

JAMES I. uur:n9 



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EARTH AND HEAVEN. 

rrilE roseate lines of early dawn, 
JL The brig-litness of the day ; 
The crimson of the sunset sky, 

How fast they fade away ! 
Oh, for the j)early gates of Heaven I 

Oh, for the golden floor ! 
Oh, for the Sun of Righteousness, 

That setteth nevermore I 

The brightest hopes w^e cherish lieie, 

How fast they tire and faint ; 
How many a spot defiles the robe 

That wraps an earthly saint ! 
Oh, for a heart that never sins ! 

Oh, for a soul wash'd white ! 
Oh, for a voice to praise our King, 

Nor weary, day nor night ! 

Here lliith is ours, and Heavenly hope, 

And grace to lead us higher ; 
But there are perfectness, and peace, 

Beyond our best desire. 
Oh, by Thy love, and anguish, Lord, 

And by Thy life laid down, 
Grant that we fall not from Thy grace, 

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UNDERTAKE FOR ME! 

4S those tliat watcli for the day, 
Through the restless night of j^ain, 
When the first faint streaks of gray 

Bring rest and ease again — 
As they turn their sleepless eyes 

The Eastern sky to see, 
Long hours before sunrise — 
So waiteth my soul for Thee ! 

As those that watch for the day, 

Through the long, long night of grief, 
When the soul can only pray 

That the day may bring relief, — 
When the eyes, with weeping spent, 

No dawn of hope can see. 
But the heart keeps watch intent, — 

So waiteth my soul for Thee ! 

As those that watch for the day, 

Through that deepest night of all, 
When trembling, and sin have sway, 

And the shades of Thy absence fall ; 
As they search through clouds of fear 

The Morning Star to see, 
And the Light of Life appear — 

•^0 waiteth mv soul for Thee ! 






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24 THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. 

As those that watch for the day, 

And know that the day will rise, 
Though the weary hours delay, 

As they pass under midnight skies ; 
Though the Sun of Righteousness 

Only Faith's eye can see, 
Because Thou hast promised to bless — 

Lord Jesus, I wait for Thee ! 



THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. 

COULD we but know 
The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel, 
Where lie those hajDpier hills and meadows low ; 
Ah ! if beyond the spirit's inmost cavil 
Aught of that country could we surely know, 
Who would not go ? 

Might we but hear 
The hovering angels' high imagined chorus, 

Or catch, betimes, with wakeful eyes and clear, 
One radiant vista of the realm before us — 
With one raj^t moment given to see and hear, 
Ah, who would fear ? 

Were we quite sure 

Co find the peerless friend who left us lonely, 

Or there, l:)y some celestial stream as pure, 



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To gaze in eyes that here were lovelit only — 
This weary mortal coil, were we quite sure, 
Who would endure ? 

Hound Table 



THE AXSWER. 

'i WHO would not go " 

T T With buoyant steps, to gain that blessed 
portal. 
Which opens to the land we long to know ? 
Where shall be satisfied the soul's immortal, 
Where we shall drop the wearying and the wr 
In resting so ? 

" Ah, who would fear ?" 
Since, sometimes through the distant pearly poi 
tal, 
Unclosing to some happy soul a-near. 
We catch a gleam of gl(;rious light immortal, 
And strains of heavenly music faintly hear, 
Breathing good cheer ! 

" Who would endure " 
To walk in doubt and darkness with misgiving, 

When He whose tender promises are sure — 
The Crucified, the Lord, the Ever-living — 
Keeps us those " mansions " evermore secure 
By waters pure ? 
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Oh, wondrous laud I 
Fairer than all our spirit's fairest dreaming : 

" Eye hath not seen" — no heart can understand 
The things prepared, the cloudless radiance stream- 
ing. 
How longingly we wait our Loid's command— 
His opening hand ! 

Oh, dear ones there ! 
Whose voices, hushed, have left our j)athway 
lonely, 
We come, ere long, your blessed home to share ; 
We take the guiding Hand, we trust it only — 
Seeing, by faith, beyond this clouded aii*, 
That land so fair ! 

J. H. T., IN THE Round TobU. 



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IIJTHETHER there many be, or few, 
T T Elect the heavenly goal to win, 
Truly, I know not — this I k:iow — 
That none who march with footsteps slow, 
That none who fight with hearts untrue, 
That none who serve with service cold, 
The Eternal City can behold, 
Or enter in. 



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Whether there many be who thrive 

In their vast suit for that vast love, 
Truly, I know not— this I know — 
That love lives not in outward show ; 
That but to seek is not to strive ; 
That thankless praises, empty prayers, 
Can claim no bond, for will of theirs 
His court to move. 

How long the door, unfastened now. 

Shall open by His grace remain, 
Truly, I know not— this I know — 
If once that grace aside He throw, 
No tear, no sigh, no anguished vow, 
Gnashing of teeth, wringing of hands, 
Shall draw the bolts and loose the bands 
Ever again. 

How long His wi'ath may yet forbear, 

And sheathe His sword, and hide His rod, 
Truly, I know not — this I know — 
He points the arrows of His bow, 
While speed apace that night of fear, 
Of debt unpaid, of work undone. 
Where Mercy, Pardon, Hope is none, 
Laid up with God I 

From Maiming Thoughts, 



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28 L ORD, TIIO U A R T MINE! 



LORD, THOU ART MINE I 

LORD, Til on art mine. 
Send help to mc ! 
Christ, I am Thine, 
Deliver me ! 
Then shall 1 praise and sing, 
" My soul, bless thou thy God and King I" 

' Mercies are Thine, 
Remember me ! 
Sad sins are mine. 
Oh, pardon me ! 
Then shall I joraise and sing, 
*' My soul, bless thou thy God and King I" 

Goodness is Thine, 

Lord, pity me ! 
Evil is mine, 
Forsake not me ! 
Then shall I praise and sing, 
*^ My soul, bless thou thy God and King I" 

All light is Thine, 

Oh, shine on me ! 
Darkness is mine, 
Enlighten me I 
Then shall I praise and sing, 
" My soul, bless thou thy God and King I" 

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WS STOOD BESIDE THE RIVER. 29 



True life is Thine, 

Breathe it on me I 
All death is mine, 
Oh, quicken me ! 
Then shall I praise and sing, 
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WE STOOD BESIDE THE PdVER. 

Tl^'E stood beside the river, 
T T Whence all our souls must go, 
Bearing a loved one in our arms, 
Our hearts repeating the alarms 

That came across the river ; 
And saw the sun decline in mist, 
That rose until her brow it kissed. 

And left it cold as snow. 

Watching beside the river, 
With every ebb and flow, 
Fond hopes within our hearts would spring, 
Until another warning ring 

Came o'er the fearful river. 
We saw the flush, the brightness fade. 
The loving lips look grieved and sadj 

The white hands whiter grow. 

Watching by the river, 
With anguish none can tell • 




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And trembling Learts and hands, we strove 
To save the darling of our love 
From going down the river ! 
Oh, j)owerless, but to weep and pray, 
And grieve for one who, tar away, 
Had said his last farewell ! 

Weeping by the river. 

There came a blessed time, 
A solemn calm spread all around, 
Making it seem like holy ground, 

Beside the silent river I 
The world receding from our eyes. 
Caught gleams of that dear land which lies 

In Canaan's happy clime ! 

And there, beside the river, 

Came lessons strange and sweet, 
The perfect work of patience done, 
The warfare finished, victory won 

With weak hands by the river ' 
The childlike fear, the clinging love, 
The darkness brightened from above, 

The peace at Jesus' feet ! 

Waiting by the river. 

Through mingled night and day, 
Sweet memories round our hearts we bring, 
Of Jesus' love and Heaven we sing, 






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KNEELING AT THE. ITJUESHOLD. 3] "^ 

To soothe her by the river ; 
And wept for one whose heart would break, 
Be pitiful for Jesus' sake. 

Father in heaven, we pray ! 

Standing by the river, 
We closed the weary eyes, 
In Jesus' arms we laid her do^vn, 
A lovely jewel for His crown. 

He bore her through the river, 
And clothed her in a robe so white, 
Too beautiful for mortal sight, 

And took her to the skies ! 



KNEELING AT THE THRESHOLD. 

I'M kneeling at the threshold, weary, faint, and 
sore ; 
Waiting for the dawning, for the opening of the 

door; 
Waiting till the Master shall bid me rise and 

come, 
To the glory of His presence, to the gladness of 
His home ! 

A weaiy path I've traveled, 'mid darkness, storm, 

and strife : | 

Bearing many a burden, struggling for my life ; I 




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But now tlie morn is breaking, nty toil will soon 



be o'er, 



I'm kneeling at the tlireshold, my hand is on the 
door ! 

Maiiiinks I hear the voices of the blessed as they 
stand, 

Singing in the sunshine in the far-off sinless land : 

Oh, would that I were with them, amid their shin- 
ing throng, 

Mmgling in their worship, joining in their song I 

The friends that started with me have entered 

long ago ; 
One by one they left me struggling with the foe ; 
Their j)ilgrimage was shorter, their triumph surer 

won. 
How lovingly they'll hail me, when all my toil ia 

done ! 

With them the blessed angels that know no grief 

or sin, 
I see them by the portals, prepared to let me in. 
O Lord, I wait Thy pleasure ; Thy time and way 

are best ; 
But I'm wasted, worn, and weary ; O Father, bid 

me rest ! 

GUTHRIE. 

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LEAVE GOD TO ORDER ALL THY WAYS. 

EAVE God to order all thy ways, 
J And hope in Him, wbate'er betide ; 
Thou'lt find Him in the evil days 

An all-sufficient strength and guide. 
"Who trusts in God's unchanging love, "N 
Builds on the rock that naught can move/ 

What can these anxious cares avail — 
These never-ceasing moans. and sighs ? 

What can it help us to bewail 
Each painful moment as it flies ? 

Our cross and trials do but press 

The heavier for our bitterness. 

Only your restless heart kee23 still. 

And wait in cheerful hope, content 
To take whate'er His gracious will. 

His all-disceming love, hath sent ; 
Nor doubt our inmost wants are known 
To Him who chose us for His own ! 

He knows when joyful hours are best ; 
I He sends them as He sees it meet ; 

\ When thou hast borne its fiery test, 

I And now art freed from all deceit, 

I He comes to thee all unaware. 

And makes thee own His loving care. i 



^i GL OR Y IN TRIE ULA TION ALSO. 



Nor, in the heat of pain and strife, 
Think God hath cast thee off nnheard ; 

jSTor that the man whose prosperous life 
Thou enviest, is of him preferred. 

Time passes, and much change doth bring, 

And sets a bound to everything. 

All are alike before His face : 

'Tis easy to our God most high 
To make the rich man poor and base, 

To give the poor man wealth and joy. 
True wonders still of Him are wrought, 
Who setteth up and brings to naught ! 

Sing, pray, and swerve not from His ways, 
But do thine own part faithfully ; 

Trust His rich promises of grace, 
So shall it be fulfilled in thee : 

God never yet forsook at need 

The soul that trusted Him indeed ! 

GEORGE NEUMAEK. 



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WE GLORY IJSr TRIBULATION ALSO. 

U T17ITHIN this leaf, to every eye 

? T So little worth, doth hidden lie 
Most rare and subtile fragrancy. 
'Wouldst thou its secret strength unbind 2 
Crush it, and thou shalt perfume find 
Sweet as Arabia's spicv wind. 





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** 111 tins dull stone so poor, and bare 
Of shape or luster, f)atient care 
Will find for thee a jewel rare ! 
But first must skillful hands essay, 
"With file and flint, to clear away 
The film which hides its fire from day. 

" This leaf! This stone ! It is thy heart ; 
It must be crushed by pain and smart ; 
It must be cleansed by sorrow's art. 
Ere it will yield a fragrance sweet, 
Ere it will shine a jewel meet 
To lay before Thy dear Lord's feet !" 

Romans v. 3. 



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OHOLY Saviour, Friend unseen, 
The faint, the weak, on Thee may lean 
Help me, throughout Life's varying scene. 
By faith to cling to Thee ! 

Blest with communion so Divine, 
Take what Thou wilt, shall I rej)ine. 
When, as the branches to the vine, 
My soul may cling to Thee ? 

Far from her home, fatigued, opprest, 
Here she has found a place of rest. 
An exile still, yet not unblest. 
While she can cling to Thee 1 

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■VViitit>aT. rt mumiur I dismiss 
My foimer dreams of eartlily bliss ; 
jVIy ^ioy, my recompense be this, 
Eacli hoiir to cling to Thee ! 

What tl". 5ugli the world deceitful j)rove, 
And earthly li-iends and joys remove, 
With patient, uncomi^laiaing love, 
Still wonld I cling to Thee ! 

Oft when I seem to tread alone 
Some barren waste with thorns o'ergroTvn, 
A voice of love, in gentlest tone. 
Whispers, " Still cling to Me !" 

Though faith and hope avrhile be tried, 
I ask not, need not, aught beside ; 
How safe, how calm, how satisfied, 
The souls that cling to Thee ! 

They fear not Life's rough, storms to brave, 
Since Thou art near, and strong to save ; 
Nor shudder e'en at Death's dark wave, 
Because thev cling to Thee ! 



Blest is my lot, whate'er befall ; 
What can disturb me, who apjjal ; 
While, as my strength, my rock, my all, 
Saviour, I cling to Thee ! 

CHARLOTTE ELLIOT. 

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"COME UNTO MEr 

A RT tliou weary ? Art thou languid \ 
l\. Ai't thou sore distrest ? 
" Come to Me," saith One, " and coming, 
Be at rest !" 

Hath He marks to lead me to Him, 

If He be my Guide ? 
" In His feet and hands are wound-joriut^ 
And His side." 

Is there diadem as monarch 

That His brow adorns ? 
" Yea, a crown in veiy surety, 
But of thorns !" 

If I find Him, if I follow, 

What His guerdon here ? 
" Many a sorrovv, many a labor, 
Many a tear." 

If I still hold closely to Him, 

What hath He at last ? 
" Sorrow vanquished, labor ended, 
Jordan past !" 

If I ask Him to receive me. 

Will He say me nay ? 
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THE UNSEEN BATTLE-FIELD. 



Tending, following, keeping, struggling, 

Is He sure to bless \ 
" Angels, martyrs, propliets, pilgrims, 
Answer — Yes !" 

From St. Stephen tlie Salaite. 




THE UNSEEN BATTLEFIELD. 

rrHERE is an unseen battle-field 
X In every buman breast. 
Where two opposing forces meet. 
And where they seldom rest. 

That field is bid from mortal sight, 

'Tis only seen by One, 
Who knows alone where victory lies 

When each day's fight is done. 



One army clusters strong and fierce, 

Their chief of demon form ; 
Kis brow is like the thunder-cloud, 

His voice the bursting storirj . 

His captains. Pride, and Lust, and Hate, 
Whose troops watch night and day ; 

Swift to detect the weakest point, 
And thii'sting for the fray. 



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Contending with this mighty force 

Is but a little band ; 
Yet there, -with an unquailing front, 

Those warriors firmly stand. 

Their leader is of God-like form. 

Of countenance serene ; 
And glowing on His naked breast 

A single cross is seen. 

His captains, Faith, and Hope, and Love, 

Point to that wondrous sign ; 
And, gazing on it, all receive 

Strength from a source Divine. 

They feel it speaks a glorious truth, 

A truth as great as sure, 
That, to be victors, they must learn 

To love, confide, endure. 

That faith sublime, in wildest strife, 

Imparts a holy calm ; 
For every deadly blow a shield, 

For every wound a balm. 

And when they win that battle-field, 

Past toil is quite forgot ; 
The plain where caiTiage once had reigue<l, 

Become a hallowed spot. 



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40 WITROCTT MOXEY, ETC. 

Tlic spot Avlioro joy of rtowoi*s ;iiul peace 

Spriiii:: from the fertile soil, 
And brentUo the perfume of their praiso 

On everv breeze of Ciod ! 



WITHOUT MOXEY AXD WITHOUT FlilCB 

A N I N V I T A T I O N . 

/^ O:\rE to Jesus ! Are yon h-»nely ? 
\.J SoUiee sweet lie -svill allbrd. 
Lean on Jesns — Jesns only 1 
Come, and thid a loving Lord 1 

Are your trials past the telling i 
Are your sins as ciimson dye 'i 

Jesus sees your sad heart swelling, 
'Neath aeensing Memory. 

lie is waiting — will you leave Ilira 
Pleading at your heart in vain ? 

He is willing — oh, believe Him ! 
He may never call again. 

He hath never yet forsaken 
One who trusts alone in God ; 

He your life-long debt hath taken. 
And hath paid it with His Blood. 






WITHOUT MONEY, ETC. * \\ 

From your sins lie waits to cleanse you — 
You 1 the slave by Satan bound ; 

Messages of love lie send-i you — 
Where can such a Friend be found ? 

Arc you sick ? Ills word can heal you. 

Are you weary with tlie strife ? 
Are you hungry ? He can fill you 

With the Heavenly Bread of Life ! 

Now ! it is the time to try it : 
Test Him by His written Word ; 

Come, for He will ne'er deny it ; 
Come to Christ, tlie Risen Lord I 

Do you fear His sharj) rej) roving 

That you did not go before ; 
That you left Him — so unloving — 

Waiting long time at your door ? 

He will only smile and greet you, 
Chasing shadows from your brow ; 

He will surely run to meet you. 
Saying, " Thou art welcome now !" 

By still waters He will lead you, 

In green pastures you shall rest ; 

And the pierced hands that freed you, 

Bear you on His tender breast. 
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■"* 42 * LORD, THOU ART MINE! H 

Come, oh, come, this day, and try it ! 

Jesus' words are proved and true ; 
Take nis gift, you cannot buy it — 

He hath waited long for you. 

ANNA SHirTON, 



"LOOKING UNTi. JESUS." 

THOU, Lord, my path shalt choose, 
And my Guide be I 
What shall I fear to lose 

While I have Thee ? 
This be my portion blest. 
On my Redeemer's breast, 
In peaceful trust to rest : 
He cares for me ! 

Shall, I then, choose my way ? 

Never, oh, no 1 
I, a creature of a day. 

What can I know ? 
What dread perplexity, 
Then would encompass mc ; 
Now I can look to Thee, 

Thou orderest so I 

Thi? lightens every cross, 
Cheers every ill ; 



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Buffer I grief or loss, 

It is Thy will ! 
vVho can make no mistake, 
Jliooseth tlie way I take ; 
^e who can ne'er forsake. 

Holds my hand still ! 

Sweet words of peace and Ic ve 

Christ whispers me ! 
Beaiing my soul above 

Life's troubled sea 1 
This be my portion blest, 
On my Redeemer's breast 
In peaceful trust to rest : 
He cares for me I 

Christ died my love to win, 

Christ is my tower I 
He will be with me in 

Each tiying hour ! 
He makes the wounded whole, 
He will my heart console, 
He will uphold my soul 

By His own power I 

To Thee, the only Wise, 

Whatever be, 
I will lift up mine eyes 

Joyful in Thee 1 



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THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. 



This be my portion blest, 
On my Redeemer's breast 
In peaceful trust to rest : 
He cares for me ! 

From the German, 



THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. 

AND wliither came thece goodly stones 
'Twas Israel's pride to raise ; 
The glory of the former house, 

The joy of ancient days ; 
In purity and strength erect, 
In radiant splendor bright. 
Sparkling with golden beams of noon, 
Or silver smiles of night ? 

From coasts the stately cedar crowns 

Each noble slab was brought, 
In Lebanon's dee23 quarries hewn. 

And on its mountains wrought ; 
There rung the hammer's heavy stroke 

Among the echoing rocks ; 
There chased the chisel's keen, sharp edge, 

The rude, unshapen blocks. 

Thence jDolished, i)erfected, complete, 
Each fitted to its place, 



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For lofty coping, massive walls, 

Or deep imbedded base — 
They bore them o'er the waves that rolled 

Their billowy swell between 
The shores of Tyre's imperial pride, 

And Judah's hills of green. 

With gradual toil the work went on, 

Through days, and months, and years, 
Beneath the Summer's laughing sun, 

And Winter's frozen tears. 
And thus in majesty sublime 

And noiseless pomp it rose — 
Fit dwelling for the God of peace I 

A temple of repose. 

Brethren in Christ, to holier things 

The simple type apply ; 
Our God himself a temple builds, 

Eternal, and on high, 
Of ransomed souls ; their Zion there — 

That world of light and bliss — 
Their Lebanon, the place of toil, 

Of previous moulding — this ! 

From Nature's quarries, deep and dark, 

With gracious aim He hews 
The stones, the spiritual stones, 

It pleaseth Him to choose. 



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Hard, rugged, sliapeless at the first, 
Yet destined each to shine — 

Moulded beneath His patient hand- 
In purity divine. 




Oh, glorious process ! see the proud 

Grow lowly, gentle, meek ; 
See floods of unaccustomed tears 

Gush down the hardened cheek : 
Perchance the hammer's heavy stroke 

O'erthrew some idol fond ; 
Perchance the chisel rent in twain 

Some precious, tender bond. 

Behold, he prays ! Whose lips were sealed 

In quiet scorn before, 
Sighs for the closet's holy calm, 

And hails the welcome door. 
Behold, he works for Jesus now, 

Whose days went idly past ; 
Oh, for more mouldings of the Hand 

That works a change so vast I 



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Ye looked on one, a well-wrought stone, 

A saint of God matured. 
What chiselings that heart had felt ! 

What chastening strokes endured ' 



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But marked ye not that last soft touch 

What perfect grace it gave, 
Ere Jesus bore His servant home 

Across the darksome vs^ave ? 

Home to the iDlace His grace designed 

That chosen soul to fill, 
In the bright temple of the saved, 

Upon His holy hill. 
Home to the noiselessness, the iDcace 

Of those sweet shrines above, 
Whose stones shall never be displaced- 

Set in redeeming love. 

Lord, chisel, chasten, polish us, 

Each blemish wash away ; 
Cleanse us with purifying blood. 

In spotless robes array ; 
And thus, Thine image on us stamped, 

Transport us to the shore 
Where not a stroke is ever felt. 

For none is needed more, 



ONL Y OUR LO VE 

TO do Thy holy will ; 
To bear Thy cross ; 
To trust Thy mercy still, 
lu pain or loss ; 






48 



ONLY OUR LOVE. 



Poor gifts are these to bring, 

Dear Lord, to Thee, 
"Who hast done everything 
For me ! 

For Thy beloved Son 

And precious Word ; 
For all Thy goodness done 

On earth, O Lord ! 
For leave that I may live, — 

Blest boon of Thine, — 
What recompense can give 

This heart of mine ? 

What, for Thy glorious earth,— 

Thy stars and flowers ? 
What, for Thy seasons' birth, 

Kind Lord of ours ? 
What, for the gentle ones 

Whose lives I share ? 
For home, and the kindly tones 

Love whispers there ? 






Thou, Who enthroned above 

Dost hear our call, 
Oh, can our faithful love 

Pay Thee for all ? 



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Poor recompense to bring, 

Dear Lord, to Thee, 
Who hast done everything 
For me ! 

GEORGE COOI'ER, 



IN THE CLOSET, 

THE air is stirred with holy life, 
All earthly thoughts take wing ; 
Hushed be the tumult of my heart, 
I hear the angels sing. 

Yes I o'er my bowed and weeping head, 

I feel their waving wings, 
While mercy-drops are falling round, 

Drops from the heavenly springs. 

And softly from the holy haze 
Falls forth the word of cheer : 

'' Speak, troubled soul, what is thy need ? 
Jesus Himself is here I" 



" My Lord and God !" my soul replies, 

" I hear Thy gracious call ; 
No need have I, since Thou art here, 

Thou art my all in all ! 




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AND THEY S FT ALL SEE HIS FA OF. 




" Oh, let me ever here repose 
Upon Thy soothing breast ; 

For now I know how blissfully 
Thy weary ones find rest !" 



D. r., D. 



IN SUFFERING 

TT'ATHER, Thy will, not mine, be done ; 
-i So prayed on earth Thy sufiering Son ; 

So in His name I pray. 
The spirit faints, the flesh is weak, 
Thy help in agony I seek — 

Oh, take this cup away ! 

If such be not Thy soy'reign will, 
Thy wiser purpose then fulfill ; 

My wishes I resign ; 
Ijmto Thy hands my soul commend, 
/; n Thee for life or death depend ; 

Thy will be done, not mine. 



AND THEY SHALL SEE HIS FACE. 

WHAT must it be to dwell above. 
At God's right hand, where Jesus reigns, 
Since the sweet earnest of His love 
Overwhelms us on these dreary plains ! 






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IN THE OTHER WORLD. 



No heart can think, no tongue explain, 
What blis?, it is with Christ to reign. 

When sin no more obstructs our sight, 
When sorrow pains our heart no more, 

How shall we view the Prince of Light, 
And all His works of graca explore ! 

What heights and depths of love Divine 

Will there through endless ages shine ! 

Well, He has fixed the happy day 
When the last tears will wet our eyes, 

And God shall wipe all tears away, 
And fill us with Divine surprise 

To hear His voice, and see His face, 

And feel Plis infinite embrace ! 

This is the Heaven I long to know ; 

For this, with patience, I would wait, 
Till, weaned from earth and all below, 

I mount to my celestial seat, 
And wave my palm, and wear my crown, 
And, with the elders, cast them down. 



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SWAIN. 



hV THE OTHER WORLD. 

T lies around us like a cloud — 
A world we do not see ; 
Yet the sweet closing of an eye 
May bring us there to be. 



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Its gentle breezes fan our cheek ; 

Amid our worldly cares 
Its gentle voices wbisper love, 

And mingle with our prayers. 

Sweet hearts around us throb and beat, 
Sweet helping hands are stirred, 

4.nd palpitates the veil between 
With breathings almost heard. 

The silence— awful, sweet, and calm — 
They have no power to break ; 

For mortal words are not for them 
To utter or partake. 

So thin, so soft, so sweet they glide, 
So near to press they seem — 

They seem to lull us to our rest. 
And melt into our dream. 

And in the hush of rest they bring 

'Tis easy now to see 
IIow lovely, and how sweet a i)as9, 

The hour of death may be. 

To close the eye, and close the ear, 
Wrajoped in a trance of bliss, 

And gently dream in loving arms 
To swoon to that — from this. 







CHRIST RISEN. 53 




Scarce knowing if we wake or sleep, 

Scarce asking where we are, 
To feel all evil sink away, 

All sorrow and all care. 

Sweet souls around us ! watch, us still, 

Press nearer to our side, 
Into our thoughts, into oui* prayers, 

With gentle helpings glide. 

Let death between us be as naught, 
A dried and vanished stream : 

Your joy be the reality, 

Our sufferijig life the dream. 

H. BEECHER STOWS 



CHRIST RISEN. 

rpHE foe behind, the deep before, 
X Our hosts have dared and j)ast the sea 
xVnd Pharoah's wamors strew the shore, 
And Israel's ransomed tribes are free. 
Lift up, lift up your voices now ! 
The whole wide-world rejoices now 1 
The Lord hath triumphed gloriously I 
Tlie Lord shall reign victoriously I 
Happy morrow. 
Turning son'ow 

Into peace and mirth ! 





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Bondage ending, 
Love descending 

O'er the earth ! 
Seals assuring, 
Guard's securing ; 

Watch his earthly prison, 
Seals are shattered, 
Guards are scattered, 

Christ hath risen ! 



No longer must the mourners weep, 

Nor call departed Christians dead ; 
For death is hallowed into sleep 
And every grave becomes a bed. 

Now once more 

Eden's door 
Open stands to mortal eyes ; 
For Christ hath risen, and men shall nse : 

Now at last, 

Old things past, 
Hope, and joy, and j^eace l^egm : 
For Christ hath won, and men shall win. 

It is not exile, rest on higli : 

It is not sadness, peace from strife : 

To fall asleep is not to die : 

To dwell with Christ is l^etter life. 



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Where our banner leads us, 

"We may safely go : 
Where our Chief precedes us, 

We may face the foe. 
His right arm is o'er us, 

He will guide us through ; 
Christ hath gone before us ; 

Christians ! follow you ! 

JOHN MASON NEALE. 



QLORY D WELLE TH IN I MM AN U EL ^ 
LAND?' 

I. 

rriHE sands of time are sinking, 
X The dawn of Heaven breaks, 
The Summer mom I've sighed for. 
The fair sweet morn, awakes ! 

* Siumu'l Euthciforcl, a man of great learning and talents, waa 
first a'l'rotossor in the University of Edinburgb, then minister 
of the parish of Anworth, and subsequently Professor of Theo- 
logy at St. Andrew's, in Scotland. At one time he was impris- 
oned for tlie name of Jesus. His death-bed was as remarkable 
as his life had been. Some of his dying expressions are ])re- 
»ervod by Mr. Fleming in his Fuljilling of Scripture, who thus 
eoncliides liis narrative : " And thus, full of the Spirit, yea. as it 
were, overcome with sensible enjoyment, he breathed oi.t his 
Bonl, his la?t words being; 'Glory, glory dwelleth in luimau- 
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Dark, dark hath been the midnight, 

But dayspring is at hand, 
And glory — glory dwelleth 

In Inimanuel's land. 

II. 

Oh, well it is for ever ! 

Oh, well for evermore ! 
My nest hung in no forest 

Of all this death-doomed shore. 
Yea, let the vain world vanish. 

As from the ship the strand, 
While glory — glory dwelleth 

In Immanuel's land. 

III. 
There the Red Rose of Sharon 

Unfolds its heartsome bloom, 
And fills the air of Heaven 

With ravishing perfume : 
Oh, to behold it blossom, 

While by its fragrance fanned, 
While glory — glory dwelleth 

lu Immanuel's land. 

IV. 

The King there, in His beauty 
Without a vail, is seen : 



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It were a well-spent journey, 
Tliough seven deaths lay between. 

The Lamb, with His fair army, 
Doth on Mount Zion stand, 

And glory — glory dwelleth 
In ImmanuePs land. 



V. 

Oh, Christ He is the Fountain, 

The deep sweet well of love I 
The streams on earth I've tasted^ 

More deep I'll drink above : 
There, to an ocean fulness. 

His mercy doth expand. 
And glory — glory dwelleth 

In Immanuel's land. 



E'en Anworth was not heaven — 

E'en preaching was not Christ ; 
And in my sea-l)eat prison 

My Lord and I held tryst : 
And aye my murkiest storm-cloud 

Was by a rainbow spanned. 
Caught from the glory dwelling 

In Immanuel's land. 



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VII. 

But til at He built u lieaven 

Of His surpassing love, 
A little New Jerusalem, 

Like to the one above — 
" Lord, take me o'er the water,-' 

Had been my loud demand ; 
" Take me to love's own country, 

Unto Immanuel's land." 

VIII. 

But flowers need night's cool darknoss, 

The moonlight and the dew ; 
So Christ, from one who loved it. 

His shining oft withdrew : 
And then, for cause of absence, 

My troubled soul I scanned — 
But glory, shadeless, shineth 

In Immanuel's land. 

IX. 

The little birds at Anworth 

I used to count them blest — 
Now, beside happier altars 

I go to build my nest : 
O'er these there broods no silence, 

No graves around them stand ; 
For glory, deathless, dwelleth 

In Immanuel's land. 






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X. 

Fair Anworth by the Solway, 

To me thou still art dear ! 
E'en from the verge of Heaven 

I drop for thee a tear. 
Oh, if one soul from Anworth 

Meet me at God's right hand, 
My heaven will be two heavens 

In Immanuel's land. 

XI. 

I've wrestled on toward Heaven, 

'Gainst storm, and wind, and tide 
Now, like a weary traveler, 

That leaneth on his guide, 
Amid the shades of evening, 

While sinks life's lingering sand, 
I hail the glory dawning 

From Immanuel's land. 

XII. 

Deep waters crossed life's pathway, 

The hedge of thorns was sharp : 
Now, these lie all behind me — 

Oh, for a well-tuned harp ! 
Oh, to join Hallelujah 

With yon triumphant band, 
Who sing, where glory dwelleth, 

In Immanuel's land. 




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XIII, 

With mercy and with judgment 

My ■\vcb of tin^.e lie wove, 
And aye tlie dews of sorrow 

Were liisteretl witb His love : 
I'll bless the Hand that guided, 

I'll bless tbe Heart that planned, 
When throned where glory dwcUcth, 

In Immanuers land. 

XR'. 

Soon shall the cup of glory 

Wash down earth's bitterest woes, 
Soon shall the desert's brier 

Break into Eden's rose ; 
The curse shall change to blessing — 

The name on earth that's banned, 
Be grayen on the white stone 

In Immanuel's land. 

XY. 

Oh, I am my Beloved's, 

And my Beloved is mine 1 
He brings a poor vile sinner 

Into His " house of wine I" 
I stand upon His merit, 

I know^ no safer stand, 
Not e'en where glory dwelletb 

In Immanuel's land. 



IMMANCTEL'S LAND, 61 

xvi. 
I shall sleep sound in Jesus, 

Filled witli His likeness rise, 
To live and to adore Him, 

To see Him with these eyes : 
'Tween me and resurrection 

But Paradise doth stand ; 
Then — then for glory dwelling. 

In Immanuel's land. 

XVII. 

Tlie bride eyes not her garments, 

But her dear bridegroom's face ; 
I will not gaze at glory, 

But on my King of Grace — 
jSTot at the crown He giveth. 

But on His pierced hand : 
The Lamb is all the glory 

Of Immanuel's land. 

XVIII. 

I have borne scorn and hatred, 

I have borne wrong and shame 
Earth's proud ones have reproached me, 

For Christ's thrice-blessed name : 
Where God's seal set the fairest. 

They've stamped their foulest brand ; 
But judgment shines like noonday 

In Immanuel's land. 
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SURELY I COME QUICKLY. 




SURELY I COME QUICKLY. 

O'ER tlie distant mountains breaking, 
Comes tlic reddening dawn of day ; 
Rise, my sonl, from sleep awaking, 
Rise and sing, and watch, and pray, — 

'Tis thy Saviour, 
On His bright returning way. 

O Thou long-expected, weary 
Waits my anxious soul for Thee I 

Life is dark, and earth is dreary. 
Where Thy light I do not see. 

O my iSaviour, 
When wilt Thou return to me I 

Long, too long, in sin and sadness, 
Far away from Thee I pine ; 

When, oh, when shall I the gladness 
Of Thy Spirit feel in mine I 

O my Saviour, 
When shall I be wholly Thine ! 

Heaven is my soul's salvation ; 

Spent the night the day at hand ; 
Keep me in my lowly station, 

Watching for Thee, till I stand, 
O my Saviour, 

In Thy bright and promised land I 



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"HE GOETH BEFORE THE Mr 

riniE winds blow fierce across tlie barren wild ; 
X The storm-clouds gather darkly on our way ; 
'Tis cold ! But, oh, that loving face and mild, 

Which goes before ! tliere first the shadows stay ; 
And tempests reach Him first, our Shepherd there : 
What He endures shall we complain to bear ? 

The night comes on — 'tis dark ! the stars are dinj, 
We cannot see the way ! But, oh, that form 

Which goes before ! the night comes j'^ri^ to Him ; 
And darkness first is His, — as was the storm ! 

Shall we shrink back, or tremble to go on, 

Where He, our Shepherd, first for us hath gone ? 

The way is rough, and wearying steeps arise ; 

And thorns are there to wound our aching feet. 
But, oh, those sacred footsteps, firm and wise. 

Which go before ! they first the roughness meet, 



I *' HE GOETH BEFORE THEMr %\\ 

Witli my lamp well trimmed and burning, 
Swift to hear, and slow to roam, 

Watching for Thy glad returning, 
To restore me to my home. 
Come, my Saviour — 
O my Saviour, quickly come ! 



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And briers reacli tliem first ! Oh, sliall we dread 
To bear His cross— to walk where He hatb led ? 

Tlie stream is reached ; — the river dark and cold ; 

The waves are high ! But, oh, that miglity One. 
Who goes before ! — the billows o'er Him rolled ; 

He crossed the waters first, and shall we shun 
The final anguish which our Shepherd bore ? 
His hand shall guide us to the other shore ! 

He goes IjefoTe I And so we may not look 
Backward at all, but onward evermore ; 

Keeping in sight the blessed path He took, 
Patient to bear each cross He meekly bore ; 

Trusting His wisdom in the darkest hour ; 

O'ercoming every trial through His power ! 

He goes before I a shield against the storm : 
A shadow in the noon-day, — lights at night ; 

In danger's hour, there is tlie Shepherd's form 
But just beyond ; though fears may dim our 
sight, 

Oh, eaiihly flock, fear not forevermore ! 

Where'er we walk, cm* Shepherd " goes before." 

J. H. T. 



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WONDERFUL ! round whoso birtli-hoiii 



Prophetic song, miraculous power, 
^ CUister and hum, like star and flower. 

Those marvelous rays that at Thy will 
From the closed Heaven which is so chil.\ 
So passionless, stream'd round Thee still 

Are but as broken gleams that start, 
O Light of lights, from Thy deep heart, 
Thyself, Thyself, the Wonder art ! 

O Counselor ! four thousand years, 
One question, tremulous with tears. 
One awful question, vexed our peers. 

They ask'd the vault, but no one spoke ; 
They ask'd the depth, no answer woke ; 
They ask'd their hearts, that only broke. 

They look'd, and sometimes on the height 
Far off they saw a haze of white. 
That was a storm, but look'd like light. 

The secret of tlie years is read, 
The' enigma of the quick and dead 
By the cliild-voico interpreted. 



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O everlastinsf Father, God ! 

Sim after sun went down, and trod 

Race after race tlie orcen earth's sod. 

Till generations seemed to be 
But dead waves of an endless sea. 
But dead leaves from a deathless tree. 

But Thou hast come, and now we know 
Each wave hath an eternal flow, 
Each leaf a lifetime after snow. 

O Prince of Peace ! crown'd, yet discrowu'd. 
They say no war nor battle's sound 
Was heard the tired world around ; 

They say the hour that Thou didst come. 
The trumpet's voice was stricken dumb, 
And no one beat the battle-drum. 

Tea, still as life to them that mark. 
Its poor adventure seems a bark. 
Whose track is pale, whose sail is dark , 

Thou who art Wonderful dost fling 
One ray, till like a sea-bird's wing 
The cany as is a -^nowy thing, — 



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Till tlic dark boat is tuni'd to gold, 
The suulit-silvcr'd ocean rolled 
With anthems that are new and old, 

With noble path of luminous ray 
From the boat slanting all the way, 
To the island of undying day. 

And still as clouding questions swarm 
Around our hearts, and dimly form 
Their problems of the mist and storm ; 

And still as ages fleet, but fraught 
With syllables, whereby is wrought 
The fullness of the Eternal thought ; 

And when not yet in God's sunshine. 
The smoke drifts from the embattled line 
Of warning hearts that would be Thine ! 

We bid our doubts and passions cease, 
Our restless fears be still'd with these — 
Counselor, Father, Piince of Peace ! 

BEV. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 



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63 TIIF E'EN BRINGS A' HAME. 



THE E'EN BRINGS A' HA ME. 

UPON tlie hills the wind is sharj) and cold, 
The sweet young grasses wither on the wold, 
And we, O Lord ! have wander'd from Thy fold ; 
But evening brings us home. 

Among the mists we stumbled, and the rocks . 
Where the brown lichen whitens, and the fox 
Watches the straggler from the scattered flocks ; 
But evening brings us home. 

The sharp thorns prick us, and our tender feet 
Ai'e cut and bleeding, and the lambs repeat 
Their pitiful complaints — oh, rest is sweet 
When evening brings us home. 

We have been wounded by the hunters' darts ; 
Our eyes are veiy heavy, and our hearts 
Search for Thy coming — when the light departs 
At evening, bring us home. 

The darkness garners. Through the gloom no star 
Rises to guide us. We have wander'd far — 
Without Thy lamp we know not where we are ; 
At evening luring us home. 






KNOCKING, KVER KNOCKING. 69 




llie clouds are rouud us, and tlie snow-drifta 

thicken : 
O Tliou, dear Sliepherd ! leave us not to sicken 
In the waste night ; our tardy footsteps quicken, 

At evenino^ bring us home. 



KNOCKING, EVER KNOCKING. 

[Suggested by Hunt's Picture of tlie "Light of the Wokld.""] 

" Behold, I stand at the door and Tcnock /" 

KNOCKINGr, knocking, ever knocking ! 
Who is there ? 
'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly, 

Never such was seen before ; — ' 
Ah, sweet soul, for such a wonder 
Undo the door. 

No ! that door is hard to open ; 
Hinges rusty, latch is broken ; 

Bid Him go. 
Wherefore, with that knocking dreary 
Scare the sleep from one so weary ? 

Say Him — no. 

Knocking, knocking, ever knocking ? 

What ! Still there ? 
Oh, sweet soul, but once behold Him, 
With the glory-crowned hair ; 




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Anci iliose eyes, so strange and tender, 

Waiting tliere ; 
Open I Open ! Once behold Ilim — 

Him, so fiiir I 

All, tliat door ! Why wilt Thou Tex me, 

Coming ever to perplex me ? 

For the key is stiffly rusty, 

And the bolt is clogg'd and dusty ; 

Many-finger' d ivy rine 

Seals it fast with twist and twine ; 

Weeds of years, and years before, 

Choke the passage of that door. 

Knocking, knocking ! What ? Still knocking S 

He still there ? 
What's the hour ? The night is waning—- 
In my heart a drear complaining, 

And a chilly, sad unrest ! 
Ah, this knocking ! It disturbs me ! 
Scares my sleep with dreams iinblest ! 

Give me rest : 

Rest — ah, rest ! 

Rest, dear soul, He longs to give \\\qq ; 
Thou hast only dream'd of pleasure — 
Dream'd of gifts and golden treasure — 
Dream'd of jewels in thy keeping, 




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Waked to weariness of weeping ; — 
Oj)en to thy soul's one Lover, 
And thy night of dreams is over, — 
The true gifts He brings have seeming 
More than all thy faded dreaming ! 

Did she open ? Doth she ? Will she ? 
So, as wondering we behold. 
Grows the picture to a sign, 
Press'd upon your soul and mine ; 
For in eveiy breast that liveth 
Is that strange mysterious door ; — 
The forsaken and betangled, 
Ivy-gnarled and weed-bej angled, 
Dusty, rusty, and forgotten ; — 
There the jDierced hand still knocketh, 
And witli ever patient watching. 
With the sad eyes true and tender. 
With the glory-crowned hair, — 



Still a God is waiting there. 



H. BEECHER STOWl': 



JACOB'S LAD I) Ell. 

AH I many a time we look on starlit-nights 
. Up to the sky, as Jacob did of old ; 
Look longing up to the eternal lights, 
To spell their lives of gold. 



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72 JACOB'S LADDER. 

But never more, as to the Hebrew boy, 

Each on his way the Angels walk abroad, 
A.nd never more we hear, with awful joy, 
The' audible voice of God. 

Yet, to pure eyes the ladder still is set. 

And Angel visitants still come and go ; 
Many bright messengers are moving yet 
From the dark world below. 

Thoughts, that are surely Faith's outspreading 
wings — 
Prayers of the Church, aye keeping time and 
tryst — 
Heart-wishes, making bee-like murmurings, 
Their ^ower the Eucharist. 

Sj^irits elect, through suffering render'd meet 

For those high mansions — from the nurseiy-door 
Blight babes that seem to climb with clay-cold 
feet, 

Up to the Golden Floor— 

These are the messengers, forever wending 

From earth to Heaven, that faith alone may 
scan ; 
These are the Angels of our God, ascending 
UlDon the Son of Man ! 

W. ALEXANDEH. 




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r\ OD sends 11-3 bitter, that the sweet, 
'JT Bj absence known, may sweeter prove ; 
As dark for light, as cold for heat, 
Brings greater love. 

God sends us bitter, as to show 

He can both sweet and bitter send ; 
That both the might and love we know 
Of our great Friend. 

He sends us bitter, lest too gay 

We wreathe around our heads the rose, 
And count our right, what Heaven each daj 
As alms bestows. 

God sends us bitter, lest we fail 

That bitterest Grief aright to prize 
Which did for all the world avail 
In His own eyes. 

God sends us bitter, all our sins 
Embittering ; yet so kindly sends, 
The path that bitterness begins 
In swr-<^tnes8 ends. 



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He sends us bitter, that Heaven's sweet, 
Earth's bitter o'er, may sweeter taste ; 
As Canaan's ground to Israel's feet. 
For that great waste. 

Our passions murmur and rebel, 

But Faith cries out unto the Lord, 
And prayer by patience worketh well 
Its own reward. 

For, if our heart the lesson draws 

Aright, by bitter chastening taught, 
To keep His statutes and His laws 
Even as we ought, 

He openeth our eyes to see 

(Eyes that our pride of heart had sea'ld) 
The sweetness of Life's heavenly Tree, 
And grief is heal'd. 

And lo ! before us in the way 

We view the fountains and the palms. 
And drink, and pitch our tents, and stay 
Singing fiweet psalms. 

'■JHARLES LAWEENCE FORD 



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PER PACEM AD LUCEM. 




PER PACEM AD LUCEM. 

I DO not ask, O Lord ! that life may be 
A pleasant road ; 
I do uot ask that Thou wouldst take from me 

Aught of its load ; 
I do not ask that flowers should always spring 

Beneath my feet ; 
I know too well the poison and the sting 

Of things too sweet. 
For one thing only, Lord, dear Lord ! I plead : 

Lead me anght — 
lliough strength should falter, and though heart 
should ble-cd — 

Through Peace to Light. 

I do not ask, O Lord ! that Thou shouidst shed 

Full radiance here ; 
Give but a ray of Peace, that I may tread 

"Without a fear. 
I do not ask my cross to understand, 

My way to see, — 
Better in darkness just to feel Thy Hajd, 

And follow Thee. 
Joy is like restless day, but Peace Divine 

Like quiet night. 
Lead mc, O Lord ! till perfect Day shall shine, 

Through Peace to Light. 

A. A. PROCTOR. 



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76 **FVFN J^' TUOU WILT," 



**EVEN AS THOU WILT." 

LL TTAVE mercy on me. Lord I" 

JLl She followed Him, and cried ; and when 
there came 
No answer, follow'd, cryhig still the same, — 
" Have mercy on me, Lord !" 

" Send her away,'' they said — 
They who should be dispensers of His grace, 
■\\^oiild have Him turn irom her wiio sought Hia 
face : 

" Send her away," they said. 

He spoke their thought aloud — 
" It is not meet to take the children's bread 
And cast it to the dogs " — as if He said, 
"How poor ye are and proud." 

" Yea, Lord ! and yet the dogs 
Eat of the crumbs that from the children fall," 
She pleaded — " and there is enough for all — 

For children and for dogs." 

And He to her replied, 
" Even as Thou wilt, so be.it unto Thee. 
Thy heart the measure of the grace shall be 

From my rich store supplied." 



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THE TWO SUNSETS, *i% 

She had the thing she would — 
Lord I if I dip my cup into the sea, 
It rises full. Such cup each soul may be, 

Sncli Ocean is Thy good ! C. 



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THE TWO SUNSETS, 

O bird-song floated down the hill, 
The tangled bank below was still 






No rustle from the birchen stem, 
No ripple from the water's hem. 

The dusk of twilight round us grew, 
We felt the falling of the dew ; < 

For, from us, ere the day was done, 
The wooded hills shut out the sun. 

But on the river's farther side, 
We saw the hill-tops glorified : 

A tender glow, exceeding fair, 
A dream of day without its glare. 

With us the damp, the chill, the gloom ; 
With them the sunset's rosy bloom ; 
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THE TWO Su'XSETS. 



While dark, tlirongb willowy vistas Been, 
The river rolled in shade between. 

From out the darkness, where we trod, 
We gazed upon those hills of God, 

Whose light seemed not of moon or sun ; 
We spake not, but our thought was one. 

We paused, as if from that bright shore 
Beckoned our dear ones gone before ; 

And stilled our beating hearts to hear 
The voices lost to mortal ear ! 

Sudden our pathway turned from night ; 
The hills swung open to the light ; . 

Thro' their green gates the sunshine showed ; 
A long, slant splendor downward flowed. 

Down glade, and glen, and bank it rolled : 
It bridged the shaded stream with gold, 

* And, borne on piers oi mist, allied 
The shadowy with the sunlit side I 

"' So," prayed we, " when our feet draw near 
The river, dark with mortal fear, 





WHY DOST THOU WAIT? 



And the niglit cometh, chill Tvith dew, 
O Father ! let Thy light break through I 

So let the hills of doubt divide, 

So bridge with faith the sunless tide ! 

So let the eyes that fail on earth 
On Thy eternal hillg look forth ; 

And, in Thy beckoning angels, know 
The dear ones whom we loved below !" 

JOHN G. WHITTTER. 




WHY DOST THOU WAIT? 

POOR trembling lamb ! Ah, who outside tlio 
fold 
Has bid thee stand, all weary as thou art ? 
Dangers around thee, and the bitter cold 

Creeping and growing to thine inmost heart ; 
Who bids thee wait till some mysterious feeling, 
Thou know'st not what — perchance may never 
know — 
Bhall find thee where in darkness thou art kneel- 
ing, 
And fill thee with a rich and wondrous glow 
Of love and faith ; and change to warmth and 
light 
The chill and darkness of thy spirit's night ? 




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For miracles like this, who bids thee wait ? 

Behold, " The Spirit and the Bride say, Come I** 
The tender Shepherd opens wide the gate, 

And in His love would gently lead thee home. 
Wliy shouldst thou wait ? Long centuries ago, 

Thou timid lamb, the Shepherd paid for thee. 
Thou art His own. Wouldst thou His beauty 
know, 

Wor trust the love which yet tliou canst not see ? 
Thou hast not learned this lesson to receive ; 

More bless'd are they who sec not, yet believe. 

Still dost thou wait for feeling ? Dost thou say, 

" Fain would I love and trust, but hope is dead ; 
I have no faith, and without faith, who may 

Rest in the blessing which is only shed 
Upon the faithful ? I must stand and wait." 

Not so. The Shepherd does not ask of thee 
Faith in thy faith, but only faith in Him. 

And this He meant in saying, " Come to Me I" 
In light or darkness seek to do His will. 

And leave the work of faith to Jesus still. 

Church Jou-rndl'* 



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THE EVERLASTING MEMORIAL. 

C'P and away, like the dew of the raoming, 
That soars from the earth to its home in tiie 
sun, — 
So let me steal away, gently and loringly, 
Only remembered by what I have done. 

My name, and my place, and my tomb all for- 
gotten, 

The brief race of time well and patiently run, 
So let me x>ass awa^, peacefully, silently, 

Only remembered by what I have done. 

Gladly away from this toil would I hasten, 
Up to the crown that for me has been won ; 

Unthought of by man in rewards or in praises, — 
Only remembered by what I have done. 

Up and away, like the odors of sunset, 
That sweeten the twilight as darkness comes 
on ; 

So be my life, — a thing felt but not noticed, 
And I but remembered by what I have done. 

Yes, like the fragrance that wanders in freshness. 
When the flowers that it came from are closed 
up and gone ; 





THE EVERLASTING MEMORIAL. 



So would I be to this world's weary dwellers;, 
Only remembered by what I liave done. 

Needs there the praise of the love-written record, 
The name and the epitaph graved on the stone ? 
The things wc have lived for, — let them be our 
story, 
We ourselves ])ut remembered by what we have 
done. 

I need not be missed, if my life has been bearing 
(As its Summer and Autumn moved silently on) 

The bloom, and the fruit, and the seed of its season ; 
I shall still be remembered by what I have done. 

1 need not be missed, if another succeed me, 
To reap dow^n those fields which in Spring I 
have sown ; 
He who ploTved and who sowed is not missed by 
the reaper, 
He is only remembered by what he has done. 

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have 
spoken. 
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have 
sown, 
Shall pass on to ages, — all about me forgotten, 
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have 
done. 





THE TWO VILLAGES. 



83 



So let my living be, so be my dying ; 

So let my name lie, unblazoned, unknown ; 
Unpraised and unmissed, I shall still be remem- 
bered ; 

Yes, — Init remembered by wliat I have done. 

150NAR. 




THE TWO VILLAGES. 

OVER the river on the hill 
Lieth a village vrhite and still ; 
All around it the forest-trees 
Shiver and whisper in the breeze ; 
Over it sailing shadows go 
Of soaring hawk and screaming crow, 
And mountain grasses, low and sweet, 
Grow in the middle of every street. 

Over the river under the hill 
iVjiother village lieth still ; 
There I see in the cloudy night 
Twinkling stars of household light, 
Fires that gleam from the smithy's door, 
Mists that curl on the river's shore ; 
And in the roads no grasses grow, 
For the wheels that hasten to and fro. 

In that village on the hill 

Never is sound of smithy or mill ; 




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The t)oiises are thatched with grass and flowers, 

Never a clock to tell the hours ; 

The marble doors are always shut ; 

You may not enter at hall or hut : 

All the village lie asleep ; 

Never a grain to sow or reap ; 

Never in dreams to moan or sigh, 

Silent, and idle, and low they lie. 

In that village under the hill, 
When the night is starry and still, 
Many a weary soul in prayer 
Looks to the other village there. 
And weeping and sighing, longs to go 
Up to that home, from this below ; 
Longs to sleep by the forest wild, 
Whither have vanished wife and child, 
And heareth, praying, this answer fall — 
" Patience ! that village shall hold ye all !" 



THE WAYSIDE WATCIIEE. 

iL k LL the day you sit here idle, 

l\. And the Master at the door I 
The fields are white to harvest. 

And our labor almost o'er. 
You are dreaming, you are dreaming I 

Time is gliding fast away ; 

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See ! tbe eventide is waning, 
Soon shall break eternal day." 

" Brother, my hand is feeble. 

My strength is well-nigh spent : 
I saw you all at noon-day, 

And I marked tbe way ye went 
I cried, ' God's blessing on them. 

What a favored band they be ! 
But I'll watch upon the highway, 

God may find a work for me.' " 

" Yet you tarry, yet you tarry," 

Said the laborer again, 
" You may idle on the highway, 

And wait all day in vain. 
'Tis easy labor ' waiting ;' 

On the dusty road we tread 
To toil within the vineyard : 

Go out and work instead." 

The watcher smiled and answered, 

" My brother, is it so ? 
Who waiteth on the Master, 

The Master's will shall know, 
lie hath taught me one sweet lesson, 

I have learnt it not too late, 
There is service for the feeblest 

That only stand and waH." 
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g6 THE WAYSIDE WATCH EB, 

I sat me by the hedo:e-row, 

No burden could I bear, 
But I often tbouglit, bow blessed 

In '^be field to bave a share ! 
The loving Master v/bispered, 

Through the often lonely day, 
" Still wait on Me, thou weak one, 

The lame shall take the prey." 

Not long I tarried watching : 

A wayfarer drew nigh, 
lie was weary, sad, and hungry, 

For the glowing sun was high. 
His foot lagged faint and fainter, 

His eyes were downward cast ; 
That laborer by my lattice 

At early morn had passed. 

I drew Mm 'neath the trellis 

Of the vine's inviting shade, 
Down by the soft green pasture 

Our Shepherd's love hath made. 
I fetched him from the streamlet 

Fresh water for his feet, 
I spread the bread before him, 

And bade him rest and eat. 

He bathed in the bright fountain. 
And then, reft'cshed and strong, 



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87 



He journeyed on rejoicing : 

You could hear his happy son^. 

Where, on the dusty wayside, 
The traveler had been, 

Stood One, in heavenly beauty, 
With more than regal mien. 

" I thank thee," said the Stranger, 

" For all thy cares afford, 
For rest, and food, and welcome. 

Beside thy simple board." 
" Nay, Lord," I said, " what succor 

Have I bestowed on Theo ?" 
" Thy service to my servant 

Hath all been done to Me." 

Oil, it was Avell worth watcliing, 

A Summer's day alone ; 
Well worth the wear}- waiting, 

To hear His sweet " Well done !'* 
Is it too small a matter, 

That in man's foolish pride 
He scorns one heart to gladden 

For which the Saviour died ? 



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Oh, over blessed Master ! 

The harvest-field is fair. 
And Thou hast better servants, 

Than Thy weak one, everywhere. 



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Tbou never liast forsaken 

One waiting by the way ; 
Still meet me with a promise, 

That the lame sluill take the prey. 

From the tangled thicket near me 

I heard a mournful cry ; 
A little child had wandered 

From the sunny path hard by ; 
His hands were torn with briers, 

His hot tears fell like rain ; 
And he wept, lest he should never 

See his father's face again. 

Close to my heart I drew him, 

And pointed to the sky ; 
I showed him how the dark clouds. 

So slowly sailing by, 
But veiled the bright sun's radiance 

From valley and from hill ; 
For the faithful sun was shining 

In all his glory still ! 

He ceased to weep, and listened % 

I soothed his childish woe : 
Then on the way I led him, 

And soon beheld him go 

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Back through the green fields singing : 

Sweet was the joyful sound, 
That told the father's welcome, 

And the little wanderer found I 

Then on the highway, near me, 

I saw the Stranger stand — 
Stranger no more ! He guided 

The fliir child by the hand. 
" I thank thee," said He softly, * 

" Thou hast not w^atched in vain ; 
Behold my child returned 

Safe to my arms again." 

What grace is Thine, O Master I 

For work so poor and scant ; 
How glorious is the guerdon 

My loving Lord doth grant I 
I only saw a nursling 

Was wandering astray : 
Oh, it is worth cross-bearing 

To wait for Thee one day ! 

Have ye known the shadows darken 

On weary nights of pain. 
And hours that seem to lengthen 

Till the night comes round again ? 

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00 THE WAYSIDE WATCHER, 

The folded hands seem idle : 
If folded at His word, 

"Hs a holy service, trust me, 
In obedience to the Lord. 



Ye know the joy of labor 

Within the 'ousy field ; 
But there are deeper pleasures 

A fnthfiil heart may yield. 
To willing ones that sutler. 

And listen at His fe?t, 
From the far-otl" land God giveth 

Tlie fruit of life to eat. 

Brief is my hour of labor : 

JMy Lord my lot hath cast ; 
lie giveth royal wages 

To the tirst-cnlled as the last. 
1 have seen Ilini in Wv:-, beaury, 

While waiting;- here alone — 
I know Him cvor near me. 

For He camu-t leave His own, 

None e'er shall ]:u'k a service, 
"Who only seek His will ; 

And He doth teach His children 
To sutler and be still. 



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CAHT D WN B UT NO T DESTROYED. 9 ] 

In love's deep fount of treasures 
Such precious things are stored, 

Laid up for you, O I)les3ed 
That wait upon the Lord ! 

A^fXA Snil'TON. 



CAST DOWN BUT NOT DESTROYED. 

X^CH have I borne, but not as I shouki bear ; 
The proud will unsubdued, the formal prayer, 
Tell me Tliou yet wilt chide. Thou canst not spare, 

O Lord, Thy chastening rod I 
O help me. Father ! for my sinful heart 
Back from this discipline of grief would start. 
Unmindful of His sorer, deeper smart. 
Who died for me, my God ! 

Yet if each wish denied, each woe and pain, 
Break but some link o*' tiiat oppressive chain 
Which binds us still to earth, and leaves a stain 

Thou only canst remove — 
TJien am I blest— oh, bliss from man concealed ! 
If here to Christ, the vreak one's tower and shield, 
My heart through sorrow be set free to yield 

A service of deep love. f. f. 



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ABOUND I XG IN HOPE. 






ABOUNDING IX HOPE. 

HOPE, Cliiistiau soul ! in every stage 
Of this, thine earthly pilgrimage, 
Let heavenly joy thy thoughts engage — 
Abound in hope. 

Hope ! though thy h)t be want and vroe. 
Though hate's rude storms against thee blow, 
Thy Saviour's lot was such below — 
Abound in hope. 

Hope ! for to all who meekly bear 
His cross. He gives His crown to wear ; 
Abasement here is glory there — 
Abound in hope. 

Hope ! though thy dear ones round thee die, 
Behold with Faith's illumined eye 
Their deathless home Ijeyond the sky- 
Abound in hope. 



Hope ! for upon that happy shore 
Sorrow and sighing will be o'er, 
And friends shall meet to part no more — 
Abound in hope. 





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"//^ GIVETTI SONGS IN TEE NIGHT:* 93 



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Hope througli the watches of the night : 
Hope till the morrow bring the light : 
Hope till thy faith be lost in sight — 
Abound in hope. 

KEJSlSfEDY, 



''HE GIVETH SONGS IN THE NIGHT: 

Tl^E praise Thee oft for hours of bliss, 

T T For days of quiet rest ; 
But, oh, how seldom do we feel 
That pain and tears are best ! 

We praise Thee for the shining sun, 
For kind and gladsome ways : 

When shall we learn, O Lord ! to sing 
Through weary nights and days. 

We praise Thee when our path is plain 
And smooth beneath our feet ; 

But fain would learn to welcome pain, 
And call the bitter sweet. 



When rises first the blush of hope. 
Our hearts begin to sing ; 

But surely not for this alone 
Should we our gladness brin<?. 




94 " JJE GIVETH SONGS IN THE NIGHT."* 




Are there no hours of conflict fierce, 

l!To weary toils and pains, 
No watchings, and no bitterness, 

That bring their blessed gnins ? 

That bring their blessed gains full well, 

In truer faith and love, 
And patience sweet, and gentleness. 

From our dear Home above ! 

Teach Thou our weak and wandering hearts 

Aright to read Thy way, — 
That Thou with loving hand dost trace 

Our history every day. 

Then every thorny crown of care 

Worn well in patience now. 
Shall grow a glorious diadem 

Upon the faithful brow ; 

And every word of grief shall change 

And wave a blessed flower, 
And lift its face beneath our feet 

To bless us every hour ; 

And Sorrow's face shall be unveiled. 

And we at last shall see 
Her eyes are eyes of tenderness, 

Her sf)eech but echoes Thee ! 

JOHN PAGE nOPP3. 




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NEAREST AND DEAREST. 95 



NEAREST AND DEAREST. 

T was the Sabbath's blessed evening hour, 
And the dusk stiUness of the fire-lit room 
Fell on the spirit with a soothing power, 

A spell of holy calm unmixed with gloom. 
The fire-light flickered upon steadfast eyes. 

Brows where the Prince of Peace his seal had set, 
And tremulous lips where echoes of the skies, 

Most eloquent in silence, lingered yet. 

> At length the musing of one heart found w^ay ; 
\ " Oh, it is bliss !" she said, " to join the throng 

That fills God's temple on His holy day. 
With the full harmony of sacred song. 
j Surely the soul draws nearest to Him there, 
i And bows with holiest awe before His throne ; 

i Surely the highest bliss of faith and prayer 
] Is found within those sacred courts alone !" 

j '* Nay," said another, " not alone ! Our Lord 
' Dwells not in temples made with hands. He 

fills 
The lone heights of the everlasting hills. 
I And dwells with all who tremble at His word ! 

\ And I have felt His blessed presence more, 
I And owned with lowlier awe its hallowing sway 



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96 NEAREST AND DEAREST. 

On the lone hill-side or the waye-washed shore, 
Than even in His house of prayer to-day." 

Then spake a third—" Oh, friends, full well I know 

The joys ye speak of; but one dearer far 
Comes to me often in the ceaseless flow 

Of week-day cares, amid earth's din and jar, 
When for a moment's breatliing-time I pause, 

Saying, ' O Master, bless,' and lo ! the while, 
He stands beside me, and my spirit draws 

A heaven of rest, and gladness from His smile." 

She ceased, and then one answered yet again — 

" Yea, it is always bliss to feel Him near 
In crowd, or solitude, or sacred fane. 

But never is His presence half so dear 
As when the storms of son-ow o'er ns meet. 

And we with bleeding heart and bafiled will, 
' Faint yet pursuing ' struggle to His feet, 

And lay our souls before Him, and are still." 

Then all were silent, and my heart said^ " Yea, 
Thou hast well spoken, thou dost well to prize. 

Higher than any bliss beneath the skies, 

The faith that clings and trusts Him ' though Ha 
slay.' 

This is the one note in the song of praise, 
Kolling from all creation round the throne. 





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JlJiEP NOT FOR HER! 



That only liuman hearts sore tried can raise, 
And even they in this brief life alone." 



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WEEP NOT FOR HER! 

IITEEP not for her, for she hath crossed the 
T ? river, 

We almost saw Him meet her on the shore, 
Ajid lead her through the golden gates, where 
never 
Sorrow or death can enter any more. 

Weep not for her, that she hath reached before us 
The safe, warm shelter of her long-loved home ; 

Weep not for her, she may be bending o'er us, 
In quiet wonder when we too shall come. 

Weep not for her ; think how she may be kneeling 
Gazing her fill upon the Master's face ; 

A loving, humble smile, but half revealing 
The perfect peace she feels in Mary's place. 

But weep for those round whom the fight is 
thronging, 
Who still must buckle heavy armour on, 
Who dare not pray for rest, though sore theii 
longing, 
Till all the weary working day be done. 



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98 AN- OPEN DOOR, 

And pray for tliem, that tliey, though sad and 
loiKjly, 

May still with patience bear the cross He sends, 
And learn that tears, and wounds, and losses, only 

Make peace the sweeter wh.a the warfare ends. 



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AX OPEN DOOR. 

H, never say that the door is shut 
To any watcher weary of sin ! 
Thou knowest who said, and who says it still, 

" Ye weary and troubled to rest come in." 
We may stand v/ithout till He says, " Too late," 
But God's is never a fast shut gate. 

And though we have often refused to come. 
And chosen to wander alone in the night, 

He follows us home, and at our shut door 
He knocks, and ofiers us love ;ind light ; 

And He says to each, '' Thou rebellious child, 

i beseech thee this night to be reconciled !" 

And we answer, " O Christ ! it is cold and dark, 
And I long to be warm, and safe, and free. 

Hut Satan has bound me and locked the door, 
And he holds me back when I touch the key 

lie told me once that my home was bright. 

But now I feel it is always niglit." 



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^.V OPEN DOOR. 99 



And we hear a Voics, though the door is shut, 
We can catch the words though the wind is high, 

A.S the Holy Spirit unlocks the door, 
And Jesus enters and says, '* 'Tis I !" 

And straightway our fetters broken fall, 

And we know that our Saviour has done it all. 

Then never say that his door is shut — ■ 

He loved us befcre we had heard his name ; 

He offered us pardon, and hoi)e, and Heaven, 
And if ice refused it, is Christ to blame ? 

If in unbelief we shut the gate, 

Can we say that Christ has made us wait 1 

And He knew we \vere cold and hungry too, 
So He begged us to come, and be warmed, and 
fed. 
But we passed, and knocked at another door. 
And they gave us a stone when we asked for 
bread ; 
Yet we said, " Xo, Lord ! we will keep our sin. 
Though Thy door is wide, and there's joy within.'" 

But He waited still, though we passed Him by ; 

iVnd when all false lights had grown dim He 
came — 
He made us willing to hear His voice. 

And 'twas He that taught us to love His name ; 



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100 " SOEA'OWIXG TET BEJOICISG:' 

And He brings a light that no shade can dim, 
When He dwells in us, and we in Him. a. a. 



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' SORROWIXG YET ALWAYS JIEJOICIXG:' 



O sorrow is immingled here, 
1'^ But still, in erery bitter cup 



Is found the sweet ingredient, hope : 
Who deepest drinks shall find it there. 

Shall find it when he needs it most ; 

For when the night doth darkest grow, 

Darkness aboye, all dark below, 
And faith and hope are all but lost, 

How oft a gleam of glory sent 

Straight through the deepest, darkest night, 
Has filled the soul with heavenly light, 

With holy peace and sweet content ! 

Content to wait the will of God, 
To cast on Him the heavy load. 
To walk with Him the weary road 

With patience, leaning on the Lord. 



Content to sutler and be still, 

Without complaining bear the cross, 



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''SORROWING YET rejoicing:' IQI 

Endure the jjain, accej^t the loss, 
Of all earth's treasures, if God will. 



Content to learn by suffering long. 

In darkness still to keep the faith ; 

Still trusting what the Saviour saith. 
That pei'fect weakness may be strong. 

Content to follow where He trod, 
The Man of griefs who came to lead, 
Themselves, like Him, all perfected 

Through suffering, many sons to God. 

Yes ! there was one, and only one, 

Unmingled cup of bitterness ; 

But God, who pitied our distress, 
Gave it to His beloved Son. 

He drank it with the bitter cry, 
" O Father ! if it so may be, 
I pray Thee let it pass from Me ; 

Yet be it as Thou wilt, not I." 

Hadst thou, my soul, been there alone. 
Thou couldst not, if, like Him oppressed, 
That cup liad to thy lips been pressed, 

Have said with Ilim, " Thy will be done !'' 




102 '' SOJiEOWIXc? YET EEJOICiyQ: 



Yet from tlmt cup all sweetness flows, 

All joy of life, all hope of lietwen, 

All graee and eonsolation oiyon 
To sulierers in a Avorld of wees. 

Yes ! and to Ilim who drank that cup 
In meek submission, though untold 
Its agony ; who can unfold 

Its sweetness now, as lifted up 

Far above powers of Earth or Heaven^ 
lie sees the fruit His angiLsh bore ; 
[ He sees the world all dead before, 

I Live in the life He thus hath given ? 

I And ever as the ages glide 

I His tide of joy shall onward roll, 

\ Till He the travail of His soul 

^ Shall see, and shall be satisfied. I 



So every bitter cup of woe 

Shall yield a blessing at the last, 
And when the bitterness is past, 

With living sweetness overflow. 






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WAITING FOR SPRING. 103 



WAITING FOR SPRING. 

mAITI^^G for Spring ! Tlie motlier, v/atcliiag 
T T lonely 

By lier sick child when all the night is dumb, 
Hearing no sound save his hoarse breathing only, 
Saith, " He will rally when the Sf)ring-day8 
come." 

Waiting for Spring ! Ah, me, all nature tarries 
As motionless and cold she lies asleep, 

Wrapt in her green pine robe that never varies, 
Wearing out Winter by this southern deep. 

The tints are too unbroken on the bosom 

Of those great woods ; we want some light- 
green shoots ; 

We want the white and red acacia blossom, 
The blue life hid in all these russet roots. 

Waiting for Spring ! The hearts of men are 
watching 

Each for some better, brighter, fairer thing ! 
Each car a distant sou:id most svrcet is catching, 

A herald of the beauty of his spring. 

Waiting for Spring ! The nations in their anger 
Or deadlier torpor wraj)t, look onward, still 



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Feel a far liope tlirougli all their strife and languor; 
And better spirits in them throb and thrill. 

Waiting for Spring I Christians are waiting ever. 
Body and soul by sin and pain bowed down ; 

Look for the time when all these clouds shall sever, 
See high above the cross a flowery crown. 

Waiting for Spring ! Poor hearts ! how oft ye 
Aveary 

Looking for better things, and grieving much 1 
Earth lieth still, though all her bowers be dreary ; 

She trusts her God, nor thrills but at His touch. 

It must be so — the man, the soul, the nation, 
The mother by her child — we wait, we wait, 

Dreaming out futures ; life is expectation, 
A grub, a root that holds our higher state. 

Waiting for Spring— the germ for its iDcrfection, 
Earth for all charms by light and color given, 

The body for its robe of resurrection, 

Souls for their Saviour, Christians for our Heaven. 
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WAITING FOR CHRIST. 

"ITTE wait for Thee, all glorious One I 
T T We look for Thine appearing ; 
We bear Thy name, and on the throne 
We see Thy presence cheering. 
Faith even now 
Uplifts its brow, 
And sees the Lord descending, 
And with Him bliss miending. 

We wait for Thee through days forlorn, 

In patient self-denial ; 
We know that Tliou our guilt hath borne 
Uf)on Thy cross of trial. 
And well may we 
Submit with Thee 
To bear the cross and love it, 
Until Thy hand remove it. 

We wait for Thee ; already Thou 
Ilast all our hearts' submission ; 
And though the spirit sees Thee now, 
We long I'jr .)pen vision ; 
When ours shall Ije 
Sweet rest with Thee 
And pure, unfading pleasure, 
And life in endless measure. 

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"We wait for Thee with certain hope — 

The time will soon be over ; 
With childish longing we look up 
Thy glory to discoYcr. 
O bliss I to share 
Thy triumph there, 
When home, with joy and singing. 
The Lord his saints is bringing. 

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TRUST AND REST. 

FRET not, poor soul ; while doubt and fear 
Disturb thy breast, 
The pitying angels, who can see 
How yain thy wild regret must be, 
Say, Trust and rest. 

Plan not, nor scheme, but calmly wait ; 

His choice is best ; 
While blind and emng is thy sight, 
His wisdom sees and judges right, 

So trust and rest. 

Strive not, nor struggle ; thy poor might 

Can never wrest 
The meanest thing to serve thy will ; 
All power is His alone ; be still, 

And trust and rest. 






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Desire uot ; self-love is strong 

Within thy breast ; 
And yet He loves thee better still, 
So let Him do His loving* will, 

And trust and rest. 

What dost thou fear ? His wisdom reigns 

Supreme, confessed ; 
His power is infinite ; His love 
Thy deepest, fondest dreams above. 

So trust and rest. 



'77IE HOUSE OF GOD. 

NCE slow and sad the evening fell 

On desert path, on lonely dell. 
As, sad and desolate, 
One laid him down to sleep alone, 
His couch the sand, his pillow stone. 
The morning-tide to wait. 

But gleamed before his dazzled sight 
A radiance more than morning light, 

From opened portals given ; 
And on his charmed ear there rung • 
A sound more sweet than matin song— 

The choral hymns of Heaven. 




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TffE HOUSE OF GOD. 



He saw the glory of that place. 
Whose light is God the Saviour's face, 

He saw its dwellers fair ; 
And learnt that— desolate, alone, •* 

A wanderer from his Father's home,— 

God's presence still was there. 

So we (though often worn, oppressed, 
We wander, seeking home and rest) 

In sorrow's darkest hour 
May see, as Jacob saw of old, 
God's sunbeams bright and mauifold, 

The shades of night o'erpower. 

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For not in temple hoar alone. 
In cloistered shade, 'neath sculptured stone, 

Stands now God's house below ; 
But whensoe'er His radiance l.^right 
Gleams on our darkness and 'tis light, 

His j)resence we may know. 

Transfigured in His Gloi7,fair 

The Avhole earth stands, one house of prayer- 
One ante-room of Heaven ; 

Fo^- surely, though we know it not, 

God's presence is in every spot, 
To those who seek it given. 




I THE JUDGMENT-SPJAT. IQO 

Then let us striye, and work, and wait, 
A.S tliose who see that opened gate — 

That gh)ry in our night ; 
So that at last, through Clirist the way, 
We, too, may tread that land of day, 

Where God, the Lord, is light. 

L. R. 



THE CHILD ON THE JUDGMENT-SEAT. 

TI^HERE hast been toiling all day, sweet-heart, 
T T That thy brow is burdened and sad ? 
The Master's work may make weary feet, 
But it leaves the S2)irit glad. 

Was thy garden nipped with the midnight frost, 
Or scorched with the mid-day glare ? 

Were thy vines laid low, or thy lilies crushed, 
That thy face is so fuU of care ? 

" IsTo pleasant garden-toils were mine ! — 

I have sate on the judgment-seat, 
Where the Master sits at eve and calls 

The children around His feet." 

How earnest thou on the judgment-seat, 

Sweet-heart ? Who set thee there ? 
'Tis a lonely and lofty seat for thee. 

And well might fill thee with care. 
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110 ^^^^ JUnCUrENT-SEA T. 

" I climbed on the judgment-seat myself, 

I have sate there alone all day, 
For it grieved me to see the children around 

Id Hng their life away. 

" They wasted the Master's precious seed, 

They wasted the precious houni ; 
They trained. not the vines, nor gathered the fruits, 

And they trampled the sweet, meek flowers.-' 

And what hast thou done on the judgment-seat, 
Sweet-heart ? What didst thou there ? 

Would the idlers heed thy childisli voice ? 
Did the garden mend by tliy care ? 

" Nay, that gncved mc more ! I called and I cried 

But they left me there forlorn ; 
My voice vras w'eak, and they heeded not, 

Or they laughed my words to scorn." 

Ah, the judgment-seat was not for thee I 

The servants were not thine ! 
And the eyes which adjudge the ^Draise and the 
blame, 

See further than thine or mine. 

The Voice that shall sound there at eve, sweet- 
heart, 
Will not raise its tones to be heard. 



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■ THE JUDGMENT-SEAT. l\\ ^ 

It will liush the earth, and hush the hearts, 
And none will resist its word. 

" Should I seo tlie Master's treasures lost, 

Tlie stores that should feed His poor, 
And not lift my voice, be it weak as it may, 

And not be grieved sore ?" 

Wait till the evening falls, sweet heart, 

Wait till the evening falls ; 
The Master is near and knoweth all. 

Wait till the Master calls. 

But how fared thy garden-plot, sweet heart, 
Whilst thou sat'st on the judgment-seat ; 

Who watered thy roses and train^jd thy vines, 
And kept them from careless feet ? 

" Nay, that is saddest of all to me ! 

That is saddest of all ! 
My vines are trailing, my roses are parched, 

My lilies droop and fall." 

Go back to thy garden-plot, sweet heart I 

Go back till the evening falls ! 
And bind thy lilies, and train thy vines, 

Till for thee the Master calls. 



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Go make thy garden fair as tliou canst, 

Thou Tvorkest never alone, 
Perchance he whose plot is next to thine 

Will see it, and mend his own. 

And the next may copy his, sweet heart, 

Till all grows tair and sweet, 
And when the Master comes at eve, 

Happy laces His coming will greet. 

Then shall thy joy be fall, sweet heart, 

In the garden so foir to see, 
fa the Master's words of praise for all. 

In a look of His own for thee ! 

ArTIIOR OF " THE THKEE WAKIKGS.' 



XOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP. 

IN" the quiet nursery chambers. 
Snowy pillows yet unpressed. 
See the forms of little children 

Kneeling, white-robed, for their rest, 
All in quiet nursery chambers. 

While the dusky shadows creep, 
Hear the voices of the childi'en — 
• Now I lay me down to sleep." 







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NO W I LA Y ME DO WN TO SL EEl\ \ \ 3 

In tlie meadow and the mountain 

Calmly shine the winter stars, 
But across the glistening lowlands 

Slants the moonlight's silver bars 
In the silence and the darkness, 

Darkness growing still more deep, 
Listen to the little children 

Praying God their souls to keej). 

" Ii we die " — so pray the children, 

And the mother's head drops low ; 
(One from out her fold is f;leeping 

Deep beneath the winter's snow) ; 
" Take our souls :" and past the casement 

Flits a gleam of crystal light, .-d 

Like the trailing of his garments, 

"Walking eyermore in white. 

Little souls that stand expectant. 

Listen at the gates of life ; 
Hearing, faraway, the murmur 

Of the timiult and the strife : 
We, who fight beneath those bannera, 

Meeting ranks of foemen there, 
Find a deeper, broader meaning 

In your simple yesi^er prayer. 



Wlien your hands shall grasp this standard, 
Which to-day you wat(:h from far, 
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^Vlien yonr deeds shall sliapt^ the conflict 

lu tliis universal war, 
Pray to Ilim, the God of battles, 

"Whose strong eye can never slcc}), 
In the warring of temptation, 

Firm and true yonr sonls to keep. 

When the combat ends, and slowly 

Gleai-3 the smoke from out the skies, 
Then, far doT^-u the pui-ple distance, 

All the noise of battle dies. 
When the last night's solemn shadows 

Settle dov.'n on yon and me. 
May the love that never failcth 

Take our souls eternally. 



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THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 

PAINTED BY HOLMAN HUNT. 

N the moonlight, when no murmur from the 

haunts of men is heard. 
And the river in its sleej) flows onward, onward 

to the sea, 
And thou sleepest, who art drawing nearer to 

Eternity, 
In the silence and the stillness comes the Word« 





THE LIGHT OP THE WORLD. 




AncI He knocketh at thy portal, but thou dream- 

e.sfc in tlie night 
That the flitting bat is onh^ stnking soitly 'gainst 

the door ; 
Shall He knock so oft who cometh from the Heav 

en's ctcmal shore ? 
Sleeper in the darkness, rise, behohl thy Light ! 

'Tis thy Priest and Prophet, clad in jewelled rolio 
white attire ; 

^is thy King, and on His brow He wears the 
thorny coronal. 

Budding now with amaranthine leaves and flow- 
ers ambrosial, 

In His face is speaking pity, silent ire. 

For His glowing lamp discloseth, choking up thy 

dwelling door. 
Deadly hemlock, barren darnel, prickly bramble, 

withered grasses, 
And the ivy knits it closely to its stanchions and 

passes 
Tlirough the crevices, and hinges, and the floor. 

Let Him in ! for He will sojourn with the lowest 

and tlie least. 
And forget that thou didst keep Him waiting in 

the dews t.nd damp, 

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And for guerdon in the Yallcy He will liglit tliea 

with His lamp 

To the haj^py Shore Eternal and the Mamage 

Feast. 

B. A., Brasenose College^ Oxford. 



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THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 

LORD, Thou hast sought this wayward heart in 
Tain ; 

Choked by the world's vile weeds its portals 
stand, 

Closed to the touch of Thy redeeming Hand, 
^Vhich, knocldng gently, would an entrance gain ; 
Oh, Love unspeakable ! that Thou shouldst be 

Patient amidst the night's chill falling dews, 

While I Thy proffered fellowship refuse, 
tSlothful to rise and ope the door to Thee ! 
Long have I tarried, dreading yet to bear 

The emblems of Thy suffering, thorns and cross ; 

Lost in idolatry of Mammon's dross. 
And lured by pleasure's transitory glare ; 
Henceforth vouchsafe to shed Thy light within. 

Illume my soul, and let these contrite tears 

Blot out all record of my mis-spent yeai"s, 
Dark with the sad remembrances of sin ; 
Then, in this purified, repentant breast. 
Enter, and be for evermore my Guest ! 

W. R. WEALK. 



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HE LEADS US OiV. 

[J E leads us on, 

By paths we did not know, 
Upward He leads us, thougli our stex)s be slow, 
Thougli oft we faint and falter on the way. 
Though storais and darkness oft obscure the day, 
Yet when the clouds are gone 
We know He leads us on. 

He leads us on 
Through all the unquiet years ; 
Past all our dreamland hopes, and doubts, ant.l 

fears 
He guides our steps. Through all the tangled 

maze 
Of sin, of sorrow, and o'erclouded days 

^V^i know His will is done ; 

And still He leads us on. 

And He, at last. 
After the weary strife — 
After the restless feyer we call life — 
After the di'eariness, the aching pain, 
1'he wayward struggles which have i^roved in vain, 

After our toils are j^ast — 

Will ^Tve us rest at last. 



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HOLY GHOST DISPEL OUR SADNESS. 

HOLY GHOST, dispel our sadness, 
Pierce the clouds of sinful night ; 
Come, Thou source of sweetest gladness, 

Breathe Thy Life, and spread Thy Light ! 
Loving Spirit, God of Peace ! 
Great Distributor of grace ! 
Rest upon this congregation, 
Hear, O hear our supplication ! 

From that height which knovs no measure, 

As a gracious shower descend 
Bringing down the richest treasure 

Men can wish, or God can send ! 
O Tliou Glory, shining down 
From the Father and the Son, 

Grant us Thy illumination ! 

Rest upon this congregation ! 

Known to Thee are all recesses 

Of the earth and spreading skies ; 
Every sand the shore possesses 

Thy Omniscient Mind descries. 
Holy Fountain ! wash us clean 
Both from error and from sin ! 

Make us fly what Thou rel'usc-st. 

And delia"ht in what Thou clioosesti 



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Manifest Tliy love forever ; 

Fence us in on every side ; 
In distress be our Reliever, 

Guard and teacL, support and guide ! 
Let Thy kind effectual grace 
Turn our feet from evil ways ; 

Sliow Thyself our new Creator, 

And conform us t j Thy nature ! 

Be our Friend on each occasion, 

God ! omnipotent to save ! 
When we die, be our salvation ; 

When we're buried, be our grave ! 
And, when from the grave we rise, 
Take us up above the skies, 

Seat us with thy saints in glory. 

There forever to adore Tliee ! 

FROM THE GERMAN BY TOPI AD Y. 



ON AFFLICTION. 

i S the liaqD-strings only render 
i.1. All their treasures of sweet sound- 
All their music, glad or tender — 
Firmly struck and tightly bound : 

So the hearts of Christians owe 
Each ito deepest, sweetest strain, 




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To the pressure firm ot* woe, 
And tlie tension tight of pain 

Spices crushed theii, pungence yield ; 

Trodden scents their sweets respire ; 
Would you have its strength revealed, 

Cast the incense in the fire : 

Thus the crushed and broken frame 

Oft doth sweetest graces yield ; 
And through sufiering, toil, and shamn. 
From the martyr's keenest flame, 

Heavenly incense is distilled. 

ADAM, OF ST. VICTOR. 



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T R U S T. 

THE child leans on its parent's breast, 
Leaves there its cares, and is at rest ; 
The bird sits singing by its nest. 

And tells aloud 
His trust in God, and so is blest 
'Neath every cloud. 

He hath no store, he sows no seed. 
Yet sings aloud, and doth not need ; 
By flowing streams or grassy mead, 

He sings to shame 
Men, who forget, in fear of need, 

A Father's name. 





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The heart that trusts forever sings, 
And feels as light as it had wings ; 
A well of peace within it sj)ring3 ; 

Come good or ill, 
Whate'er to-day, to-morrow brings, 

It is His will ! 

ISAAC WILLIAMS 



SUB 3IIS SIOK. 

SINCE thy Father's arm sustains thee, 
Peaceful be ; 
When a chastening hand restrains thee, 

It is He ! 
Know His love in full completeness, 
Feel the measure of thy weakness ; 
If He wound thy sx)irit sore, 

Ti-ust Him more. 

Without murmur, uncomplaining. 
In His hand 
Leave whatever things thou canst not 

Understand ; 
Though the world thy folly spurueth. 
From thy faith in i^ity turneth, 
Peace thy inmost soul shall fill. 

Lying still. 






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Like an infant, if thou tliinkest 

Thou canst stand, 
Childlike, proudly pushing back 

The proffered hand ; 
Courage soon is changed to fear, 
Strength doth feebleness appear ; 
In His love if thou abide, 

He will guide. 

Fearest sometimes that thy Father 
Hath forgot ? 

Though the clouds around thee gather, 
Doubt Him not ! 

Always hath the daylight broken, 

Always hath He comfort spoken ; 

Better hath He been for years 

Than thy fears. 

Therefore, whatsoe'er betideth. 
Night or day, 

Know His love for thee provideth 
Good alway : 

Crown of sorrows gladly take, 

Grateful wear it, for His sake ; 

Sweetly bending to His will, 
Lying still. 

To His own thy Saviour giveth 
Daily sti'ength 



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IS THIS ALL? .123 

To each troubled soul that liveth 
Petice at length : 

"Weakest lambs have largest share 

Of the tender Shepherd's care ; 

Ask Him not, then, " Vv^hen V or " How V 
Only bow ! 

S. D. CARTER 



IS THIS ALL? 

OOMETIAIES I catch sioeet glimjyses of His face^ 

But that is all. 
Sometimes He loolcs on me and seems to snuiCy 

Hut that is all. 
Sometimes he spealcs a 2>assing loord of peace^ 

But that is all. 
Sometimes I thinh L hear His loving 'voice 

Upon me call. 



And is this all He meant when thus He spoke : 

" Come unto me ?'' 
Is there no deejjer, more enduring rest, 

In Him for thee ? 
Is there no steadier light for thee in Him ? 

Oh, come and see I 



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124 IS TJU^ ALL? 

Oh, come and see ! ob, look, and look again ! 

All sball be rigbt ; 
Ob, taste His love, and see tbat it is good, 

Tbou cbild of nigbt. 
Oil, trust Him, trust Him in bis grace and power, 

Tben all is bright ! 

In ay, do not wrong Him by tby heavy thoughts, 

But love His love ! 
Do tbou full justice to His tenderness, 

His mercy prove ; 
Take Him for what He is ; ob, take Him all, 

And look above ! 

Then shall thy tossing soul find anchorage 

And steadfast peace ; 
Thy love shall rest on His ; thy weary doubts 

Forever cease. 
Tby heart shall find in Him, and in His grace, 

Its rest and bliss. 

Clirist and His love shall be thy blessed all 

For evermore ! 
Christ and His light shall shine on all tby ways 

For evermore ! 
Chrst nnd His peace shall keep thy troubled son! 

For evermore ! 

BONAK- 

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OF EN TIIOU OUR EYES. 

AND He drew near and talked with them. 
But they perceived Him not ; 
And mourned, unconscious of that light— 
The gloom, the darkness, and the night, 
That wrapt His buiTlal spot. 

Wearied with doubt, perplexed and sad, 
They knew nor help, nor guide, 

Wliile He who bore the secret key 

To open eveiy mystery. 

Unknown was by their side. 

Thus often when we feel alone, 

No help nor comfort near, 
*Tis only that our eyes are dim ; 
Doubting and sad, we see not Him 

Who waiteth still to heai*. 

" The darkness gathers overhead. 

The mom will never come !" 
Did we but raise our downcast eyea, 
In the wide-flushing eastern skies 

Appears the glowing sun. 

In all our daily joys and griefs 
lu daily work and rest, 
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f 12G SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 

To those who seek Him, Christ is near, 
Our bliss to calm, to soothe our care, 
In leaning on our breast. 

Open our eyes, O Lord, we pray. 

To see our way, our Guide ; 
That by the path that here we tread. 
We, following on, may still be led 

In Thy light to abide. l. R. 



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SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 

y ORD,while the shadows of the past surveying- 
J J And they are many since life's early mom : 
Life's shadowy days have had a long delaying. 
It matters not, since they are past and gone — 

Are past and gone. 

I find my steps are upward slowly tending. 
That falls the glory of thy smile upon 

Tlie golden flights of steps to heaven ascending, 
And T am journeying slowly toward the dawn-- 

Toward the dawn. 

I find my future in this world of sorrows 
Answers my prayers, and golden visions ope 

Of providences in the bright to-morrows, 
Fulfilling prayer ; this is my only hope — 

My only hope. 






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A PEAYEE FOR YOU. 




Tins j»leasing hope my weary heart inspires, 
For I have prayed, and in Thy Word 'tis writ 

That they who to give Thee their warm desires, 
Shall walk the ways that they to Thee commit- 
To Thee commit. 



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I HAVE a Siiviom-— He's pleading in glory- 
So precious, though earthly enjoyments be few : 
And now He's watching in tenderness o'er me ; 1 } 

But, oh, that my Saviour was your Saviour too ! 
For you I am praying— I'm praying for you ! 

I have a Father— to me He has eiven 

A hope for eternity, precious and true ; 
And soon will my spirit be with Him in heaven ; 

But, oh, that He'd let me bring you with me too ! 

For you I am praying— I'm praying for you ! 

I have a Crown, and I'll wear it forever, 

Encircled with jewels of heavenly hue ; 
'Twas purchased by Jesus, my glorified Saviour ; 

But. oh, could I know one was purchased for 
you ! 

For you I am praying— I'm praying for you ! 

t have a Robe— 'tis resj^lendent in whiteness — 

Awaiting in glory my wondering view ; 
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Dear fiiend, could I see you receiving one too I 
For you I am praying — I'm praying for you ! 

I have a Rest— and the earnest is given — 
Though now, for a time, 'tis concealed from my 
view ; 
This life everlasting, 'tis Jesus, 'tis heaven ; 
And, oh, dearest friend, let me meet you there 

too! 
For you I am praying — I'm praying for you ! 

I have a Peace, and it's calm as a river— 

A peace that the friend of the world never 
knew ; 

My Saviour alone is its Author and Giver; 
But, oh, could I know it was given to you I 
For you I am praying — I'm praying for you I 

For you I am praying — for you I am 2)raying ! 
For you I am praying— for you, yes, for you ! 

And soon shall I hear you rejoicing and saying : 
" Your dear, loving Saviour is my Saviom- too !'* 
And prayer will be answered for you — yes, for 
you! 

And when He has found you, tell others the story, 

How Jesus extended His mercy to you ; 
Fhen point them away to the regions of glory, 



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HEAR MY CRY! I29 ^ 

And pray that your Saviour may bring them 

there too I 
For prayer will be answered— 'twas answered 

for you ! 

Oil, speak of that Saviour, that Father in heaven ; 

That Hai^p, Crown, ana Robe which are waiting 

for you ! 

That Peace you possess, and that Rest to bo given ! 

Still praying that Jesus may save them like you ; 

And prayer will be ?.nswered~'twas answered 

for you ! 

Christian WitnenSi, 



HEAR MY CRY! 

STRONG to save and bless, 
My rock and righteousness 
Draw near to me ! 
Blessing, and joy, and might, 
Wisdom, and love, and light 
Are all with Thee ! 

My refuge and my rest, 
As child on mother's breast, 

I lean on Thee I 
From faintness and from fear^ 
"Wlien foes and ill arc near, 

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Turn not away Thy ftice. 
Withhold not needed grace, 

My Ibrtress be I 
Perils are round and round, 
Iniquities abound — 

See, Saviour, see ! 



Come, God and Saviour, come I 
I can no more be dumb ; 

Appeal I must 
To Thee, the Gracious One, 
Else is my hope all gone, 

I sink in dust ! 

Oh, answer me, my God, 
Thy love is deep and broad, 

Thy grace is true ! 
Thousands this grace have shared 
Oh, let me noio be heard, 

Oh, love me too ! 

Descend, Thou mighty love, 
Descend from heaven above, 

Fill Thou this soul ! 
Ileal every bruised part, 
Bind up this broken heart, 

And make me whole. 



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'Tis knowing Thee that lieals ; 

'Tis seeing Thee that seals 

Comfort and peace ! 
Show me Thy cross and blood, 
My Saviour and my God, 

Then troubles cease. bonar, 



l^RUITLESS TQIL. 

U T ORD, I have toiled all night, 
1 J Ar.d still unblessed my hand ; 
Yet I will launch into the deep 
Once more at Thy command. 

*' I hear triumphant songs 

Swell from the banks around, 
Each answeiing each with joyful cry 
But /no spoil have found. 

*' Fruitless is all my toil. 

Through loag night-watches j)ast, 
My heart is sick with hope deferred ; 
But Thou art come at last." 

The fisher's hands hung down ; 

Dull was his heart, and faint, 
When a heavenly voice the silence broke. 

And answered his complaint. 



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" Wlieii "have I left thee, son, ^ 

That thou shouldst droop with fear % 
WJien hast thou sought my sympathy, 
And hast not found Me near ? 

" Not fruitless is thy toil. 

If thou my cross wouldst bear ; 
I do but ask thy willing heart 
To grave :ny image there. 

-' For each ne"*^ vainly cast 

Stronger thine arm will prove ; 
The trial of thy patient hope 
Is witness of Tliy love. 

" The time, the place, the way 
Are open to mine eye ; 
I sent thee —not to gather spoil- 
To labor patiently. 

^' My son I was not thy cry, 

' Increase my faith, O Lord ! 
More of Thyself, and more like Thee 
Behold, thy prayer is heard. 

'* Oh. trust Me with thy crown, 
'Tis hidden safe with Me ; 
A little while, and where I am. 
There shall my servant be, 

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" Bright seems tlij' brother's lot ; 
But, child, is thine so dim ? 
TJie Klng^ tliy Friend^ hath asl^ed of thee 
To icatch one hour with Him !" 

ANNA SHIPTON. 



THE TWO WORLDS. 

1VN0 worlds there are. To one our eyes we strain, 
-Wliose magic joys we shall not see again ; 
Bright haze of morning veils its glimmering 
shore ; 
Ah, truly breathed we there 
Intoxicating aii - 
Glad were om.* heails in that swest realm of 
Nevermore. 

The lover there drank her delicious breath, 
Whose love has yielded since to change or death ; 
The mother kiased her child whose days aro oV;r. 
Alas ! too soon have fled 
Tlie iiTeclaimable dead : 
We see them — \-isions strange — amid the 
Nevermore. 






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The brown, brown hair that once was went to 
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To tem]3les long clay-cold ; to the very core 
They strike our weary hearts, 
As some vexed men^ory starts 

From that long faded land — the realm of 
Kevermore. 

It is perpetual summer ther?. But here 
Sadly we may remember rivers clear, 
And harebells quivering on the meadow-floor, 
For brighter bells and bluer, 
For tenderer hearts and truer, 
People that happy land — the realm of 
Nevermore. 

Upon the frontier of this shavlowy land 
We pilgrims of eternal sorrow stand : 
What realm lies fcfrward, with its happier stora 
Of forests green and deeiD, 
Of valleys hushed in sleejD, 
And lakes most iDeaceful ? 'Tis the land of 
Evermore. 

Very iar off its marble cities seem — 
V^ery far off — beyond our senpual dream^ 
Its woods, unruffled by the wild winds' roar : 
Yet does the turbulent surge 
Howl on its very verge. 
One moment — and we brea':he within the 
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They wliom we loved and lost so long ago, 
Dwell in tliose cities, far from mortal woe — 
Haunt those fresh woodlands, whence sweet 
carolings soar. 
Eternal peace have they : 
God wipes their tears away : 
They drink that river of life which flows for 
Evermore. 

Thither we hasten through these regions dim, 
But lo ! the white wings of the Seraphim 
Shine in the sunset ! On that joyous shore 
Our lightened hearts shall know 
The life of long ago : 
The sorrow-burdened j)ast shall fade for 
Evermore. 

Diiblin University 3Ingazine. 



THE TWO ANGELS. 

ri'^WO angels, one of Life and one of Death, 

X Passed o'er our village as the morning broke ; 

The dawn was on their faces, and beneath 

The sombre houses hearsed with plumes of 
smoke. 

Their attitude and aspect were the same ; 

Alike their features, and their robes of white ; 



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136 TITE TWO AXGELS. 

But one was crowned with amaranth, aa with 
flame, 
And one with asphodels, like flahes of light. 

I isaw them pause on their celestial way ; 

Then said I, with deep fear and doubt opj)ressei, 
" Beat not so loud, my heart, lest thou betray 

The place where thy beloved are at rust I" 

And he wiio wore the crown of asphodels, 
Descending at my door, began to knock ; 

And my soul sank within me, as in wells 
The waters sink before an earthquake's shock. 

I recognized the nameless agony. 
The terror, and the tremor, and the pain, 

That oft before had filled or haunted me. 

And now returned with threefold strength again. 



The door I opened to my heavenly guest. 
And listened, for I thought I heard God's voice ; 

A.ud, knowing whatsoe'r He sent was best, 
Dared neither to lament nor to rejoice. 

Then with a smile, that filled the house with light, 
" My errand is not Death, but Life," he said ; 

And, ere I answered, passing out of sight, 
On his celestial embassy he sped. 

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Twas at tliy door, O friend ! and not at mine, 
The angel with tbe amaranthine wreath, 

Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, 

Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. 

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, 
A shadow on those features fair and thin ; 

And softly from that hushed and darkened room 
Two angels issued, where but one went in. 

All is of God ! If He l3ut wave His hand. 

The mists collect, the rain falls thick and lou. I, 

Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, 
Lo ! He looks back from the departing cloud. 

Angels of life and death alike are His ; 

Without His leave they pass no thresliold o'ei 
Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this, 

Against His messengers to shut the door ? 






IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? 

IS there no balm in Gilead, then? is there no 
Healer nigh ? 
No freshening spring to cheer the waste so deso- 
late and dry ? 
Hath Hope's dear vision vanished forever from 
thy sighl, 

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And darkness fallen around thee, the Tcry gloom 

of night ? 
And seems thy soul forsaken, her every blessing 

flo^-n ? 
No soothing for her sorrow, and nowhere to make 

her moan ? 
Yet stay ; the cross thou bearest thus hath first 

been borne for thee, 
Jesus Himself did hang thereon, thy life and cure 

to be. 

For thine own ease He bare it all, — the scourge 

and piercing thorn, 
The nailing and the bruising, the denial, shame, 

and scorn ; 
Darkness and desolation deep, and pangs beyond 

thy thought, 
And all for thy soul's healing these sad agonies 

were wrought. 
Upon His Cross He yearned for thee, for thee His 

heartstrings brake ; 
Himself of all forsaken, He could not thee forsake ; 
Then evermore, when chastenings sore thine inmost 

spirit wring, 
Say, My Belov'd is crucified, and I to Him will cling. 

How shall I sing Thy holy love, dear Passion of 

my Lord ? 
Or how Thy mystic virtue shall I worthily recoixi 2 

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Thou art the spring of all our hope, the balsam 

of our woes, 
The solace of our yearnings, and the bower of 

our repose, 
True Paradise of all delights, since joy of grief 

is born ; 
For, as the flowers but close at night to ope more 

fresh with morn. 
So He who wept and bled for us, and bowed in 

earthly gloom, 
Now makes those sorrows our bright bliss, those 

wounds our joyous home. 

Here is a covert from the storm, when winds and 

waves arise, 
A shadow in the scorching noon, a light in star- 
less skies ; 
A staff upon the mggcd road, a shield when foes 

assail, 
A chann Divine, against whose might no evil can 

prevail ; 
For where the Cross of Jesus is, is peace, and 

there alone. 
And 'neath that banner of His love He g'lthereth 

His own ; 
And those who will be Christ's must not e'er 

grudge their portion small. 
Who in His bitter 'chalice, once, and for Hice, 

drained it all. 

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Tliou know'st He went not up to joy, but first 

Pie suffered pain, 
And all the self-same jDatli must tread who thus 

His bliss would gain : 
Is aught too wearisome or hard for Jesus' sake to 

bear? 
^Yhile He is crowned with thorns wilt thou a 

crown of roses wear ? 
Lo ! this good Cross He offers thee ; it is thy very 

life ; 
Anoint with holy unction, it will aid thee in the 

strife ; 
*Tis hallowed by thy Saviour's touch, who hung 

on it for thee, 
And Love's sweet night shall make it light, and 

win the victory. 

Draw near, thou reft and drooping heart, draw 
near and lift thy gaze 

To Him who yearns with outstretched arms theo 
from thy grief to raise ; 

Draw near, and, clinging close beneath thy Sa- 
viour's bleeding heart, 

Tell o'er each throb of that deep woe in which 
thou hast a part ; 

Tell o'er each drop of dear iife-blood. which ebbs 
for thee so fast, 

And all thy weaiy heart-aching upon that true 

love cast : 



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GHBISTS GALL TO THE SOUL. 141 

In Jesus' Cross and Passion is tlie medicine of thy 

soul, 
Tea, there is balm in Gileacl, and a Healer to make 

thee whole. 

C. SELLON. 



CHRIST'S CALL TO THE SOUL. 

FAIR soul, created in the primal hour. 
Once pure and grand. 
And for whose sake I left My throne and power 

At God's right hand ; 
By this sad heart pierced through because I loved 

thee ; 
Let love and mercy to contrition move thee. 

Cast off the sins thy holy beauty veiling, 

Spirit divine ! 
Vain against thee the hosts of hell assailing, 

My strength is thine ! 
Drink from My side the cup of life immortal. 
And love shall lead the path to heaven's portal. 

I for thy sake was pierced with many sorrows, 

And bore the cross, 
Yet heeded not the galling of the arrows. 

The shame and loss. 
Bo faint not, then, whate'er the burden be, 
But bear it bravely, even to Calvary. 

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THEIR NAMES. 

SWEET thouglit, my God ! that ou the palma 
,_ Of Thy most holy hands 
Are graven all Thy peo2:>les' uames, 
Though countless as the sands. 

Not one too mean to have his place 

Amid that record blest, 
And if but there our names are found, 

We'll share the heavenly rest. 

How can we then yield to distrust, 

Or think we are forgot, 
While ever thus the care of One 

Who loves and changes not ? m. c. 



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ri'^WO buds plucked from the tree, 
X Two birdies flown from the nest, 
Two little darlings snatched 

From a fond mother's breast. 
Two little snow-white lambs 

Gone from the sheltering fold, 
Two little narrow graves 

Down in the graveyard cold 

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Two little clrooi)ing flowers 

Growing in purer air, 
Blooming fragrant and briglit 

In the Gardener's care. 
Two little tender bii'ds 

Flown far from fear and harm, 
Two little snow-white lambs 

In the Good Shepherd's arm. 

Two little angels more 

Singing with voices sweet, 
Flinging their crowns of gold 

Down at their Saviour's feet. 
Free from all earthly care, 

Pure from all earthly stain. 
Oh, who could wish them back 

In this drear world again % 

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"HIS TRUTH SHALL BE THY SHIJ'^ ( 
AND BUCKLE nr^^ 

WHEN my sins in aspect dread 
Meet like waters o'er my head. 
Seen in light of God's own face, 
Darker for his offered grace — 
When I sigh for healing rest, 
By a hopeless yoke opprest, 

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i44 " THY SHIELD AND BVCKLER:' 

Struggling in a grasp too strong, 

Borne as by a wind along — 

Then, I hear that Voice from Heaven, 

" Knock, and entrance shall be giyen— - 

Him that comes, whoe'er he be, 

I will never cast from Me !" 

When / come, with trembling heart, 

Will the Saviour say, " Depart ?" 

Shall I find His pardon free 

Is in wrath denied to me ? 

Is my guilt so deep in stain 

That the cleansing blood is vain ? 

" Heaven and earth shall pass away, 

Not My Words—" so Christ doth say : 

In that hour, " His Truth shall be 

Shield and buckler unto thee." 

When the clouds have hid His face, 
And His patli no more I trace, 
And all comforts that illume 
Life, have faded into gloom — 
Quenched each earth-enkindled spark, 
Can I trust Him in the dark ? 
Will my wavering faith still liold 
To a promise breathed of old ? 
When I meet some foe unknown, 
Shall I find myself alone ? 
Soul, by faith thou walkest here : 



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Tliougli nor sun nor stars appear. 
Wait and watch throughout the night, 
And till daybreak ask not sight! 
All unseen, thy Heavenly Guide 
Walks, through darkness, at thy side. 
" Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
Not My Words — " so Chris; fc doth say : 
In the gloom " Hts Tkuth shall be 
Shield and bucklpr unto thee." 

In the terrors of the night, 
In the mid-day arrows' flight, 
When destruction wasteth near, 
And all faces blanch with fear, 
When a thousand round me fall, 
Shall I trust Thee calm through all ? 
Will this trembling spirit be 
Kept " in perfect i)eace " by Thee ? 
Though all stable things may end, 
Earth and sky in tempest blend, 
Shall I lean upon Thy breast, 
And beneath Thy shadow rest ? 
Wilt Thou arm my soul with power, 
Ne'er experienced till that hour ? 
" Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
Not My Words — " so Christ doth say : 
In that strait " His Truth shall be 
Shield and buckler unto thee." 
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As the weary years go by, 

Will my love wax cold, and die ? 

If the pilgrimage be long. 

Life be dark, and foes be strong, 

Shall I not grow faint, and yield ? 

Shall I ever v/in the field ? 

How shall I endure and dare ? 

How the cross in patience bear ? 

How through tedious years sustain 

Wavering conflict, oft in vain ? 

liay, but the Unchanging Friend 

" Will confirm you to the end I"' 

'^ He Who hath the work begun 

Ne'er will leave that work undone — " 

While at God's right hand He lives, 

Deathless is the life He gives, 

Through ail change, and woe, and strife, 

" Springing up to endless Life." 

" Heaven and earth shall pass away, 

Not My Wokds — " so Christ doth say : 

In all years " His Truth shall be 

Shield and buckler unto thee." 

When I reach life's earthly bound, 
And the shadows darken round, 
All familiar things and dear 
Fading fast from eye and ear, — 
In that hour of mortal smart, 

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Treml^ling flesh and failing heart, 

Shall I find my anchor vain, 

Parting in that latest strain ? 

Hear the Shepherd's voice of old, 

Looking on His helpless fold, 

Looking far, with gazo Divine, 

Down the ages' lengthening line : 

" Every feeble sheep I know : 

Life eternal I bestow : 

"ISTone shall pluck them from My hand." 

Shall that word of promise stand ? 

Or, when countless foes affright, 

Closing romid in latest fight, 

In that deadly hour and dim. 

Shall my soul be snatched from Him ? 

'' Heaven and earth shall pass away, 

j^oT Mr Words — " so Christ doth say : 

In death's grasp " His Truth shall be 

Shield and buckler unto thee." n. a. b 



THE OTHER SIDE. 

1T7E dwell this side of Jordan's stream, 
7 V Yet oft there comes a shining beam 

Across from yonder shore ; 
While visions of a holy throng, 
And sound of liirp, and seraph song, 

Seem gently wafted o'er. 




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The otlier side ! Ah, there's the place 
"Where saints in joy past times retrace, 

And think of trials gone ; 
The veil withdi'awn, they clearly see 
That all on earth had need to be, 

To bring them safely home. 

Tlie other side ! No sin is there, 

To stain the robes that blessed ones -wear, 

Made white in Oesns' blood : 
No cry of grief, no voice of woe. 
To mar the peace their spirits know — 

Their constant peace with God. 

The other side ! Its shore so bright 
Is radiant with the golden light 

Of Zion's city fair ! 
And many dear ones gone before 
Already tread the happy shore : 

I seem to see them there. 

The other side ! Oh, charming sight ! 
Upon its banks, arrayed in white, 

For me a loved one waits : 
Over the stream he calls to me, 
Fear not — I am thy guide to be, 

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The other side ! His well-known voice, 
And dear, bright face, will me rejoice : 

We'll meet in fond embrace. 
He'll lead me on, until we stand. 
Each with a palm-branch in our hand, 

Before the Saviour's face. 

The other side ! The other side ! 
Who v/ould not brave the swelling tide 

Of earthly toil and care ; 
To wake one day, when life is past, 
Over the stream, at home at last. 

With all the blessed ones there ! 



/ AM CHRIST'S, AND CHRIST IS MINI:. 

LOKG- did I toil, and knew no earthly rest ; 
Far did I rove, and found no certain home ; 
At last I sought them in His sheltering breast 

Who opes His arms, and bids the weary come. 
With Him I found a home, a rest divine ; 
And I since then am His, and He is mine. 

Yes, He is mine ! and naught of earthly things, 
Not all the charms of pleasure, wealth, or power, 

The fame of heroes, or the pomp of kings, 
Could tempt me to forego His love an hour : 

Go, worthless world, I cry, with all that's thine I 

Go ! T my Saviour's am, and He is mine. 
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The good I have is from His stores Kiipj)lied ; 

The ill is only what He deems the best ; 
£Tc for my friend, I'm rich with nanght beside, 

And poor without Him, tl.ough of all possest ; 
Changes may come ; I take, or I resign ; 
Content while I am His, whi'e He is mine. 

Whate'er may change, in Hiio no change is seen ; 

A glorious sun, that wanes not nor declines ; 
A)3ove the clouds and storms He walks serene. 

And sweetly on His peoples' darkness shines : 
All may depart ; I fret not, nor repine. 
While I my Saviour's am, while He is mine. 

He stays me falling, lifts me up when down. 
Reclaims me wandering, guards from evei'y fc)e, 

Plants on my worthless brow the victor's crown, 
^Vhicll, in return, before His feet I throw ; 

Grieved that I cannot better grace His shrine 

Who deigns to own me His, as He is mine. 

While here, alas ! I know but half His love, 
But half discern Him, and but half adore ; 

But vviien I meet Him in the realms above, 
I hope to love Hira better, praise Him more ; 

And feel, and tell, amid the choir divine, 

llovf fully I am His, and He is mine. 

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JESUS ! Friend imfailing, 
How dear art Thou to me ! 
Are cares or fears assailing ? 

I find my strength in Thea ! 
AVhy should my feet grow weary 

Of this my jDilgrim way ? 
Rough though the path, and dreary, 
It ends in perfect day. 

Naught, naught I count as treasure, 

Compared, O Christ, with Thee ! 
Thy sorrow without measure 

Earned peace and joy for me. 
1 love to own. Lord Jesus ! 

Thy claims o'er me and mine : 
Bought with Thy blood most precious, 

Whose can I be but Thine ? 

What fills my soul with gladness ? 

'Tis Thine abounding grace ! 
Where can T look in sadness. 

But, Jesus, on Thy face ? 
My all is Thy providing ; 

Thy love can ne'er grow cold ; 
In Thee, my Refuge, hiding, 

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"W^liy should I droop in sorrow ? 

Thou'rt eyer by my side : 
Why, trembling, dread the morrow ? 

What ill can e'er betide ? 
If I my Cross iiave taken, 

'Tis but to follow Thee ; 
If scorned, despised, forsaken, 

Naught severs Thee from me : 

Oh, worldly x^omp and glory ! 

Your charms are spread in yain f 
r ve heard a sweeter story, 

I've found a truer gain ! 
Where Christ a place prepareth, 

There is my loved abode ; 
There shall I gaze on Jesus, 

There shall I dwell with God t 

For every tribulation. 

For every sore distress. 
In Christ I've full salvation, 

Sure help, and quiet rest. 
No fear of foes prevailing ! 

I triumph, Lord, in Thee ! 
O Jesus ! Friend unfailing ! 

How dear art Thou to me ! 

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THE DA Y OF REST. 

ODAY most calm, most bright, 
The frait of this, the aext world's bud, 
The endorsement of supreme delight, 
Writ by ti Friend, and with His blood ; 
The couch of time, care's balm and bay : 
The week were dark but for Thy light, 
Thy torch doth show the way. 

The other days and thou 
Make up one man, whose face Thou art, 
Knocking at Heaven with thy brow ; 
The worky-days are the back j)art ; 
The burden of the week lies there, 
Making the whole to stoop and bow, 

Till thy release appear. 

Man had straightforward gone 
To endless death ; but thou dost pull 
And turn us round to look on One, 
Whom, if we were not very dull. 
We could not choose but look on still ; 
Since there is no place so alone, 

The which He doth not fill. 

Sundays the pillars are 
On which Heaven's palace arched lies ; 



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The other days fill up the spare 
And hollow room, with vanities. 
They arc the fruitful beds and borders, 
In God's rich garden, that is bare. 

Which parts their ranks and orders. 

The Sundays of man's life, 
Threaded together on time's string, 
Make bracelets to adorn the wife 
Of the eternal, glorious King. 
On Sunday Heaven's gate stands ope ; 
Blessings are plentiful and rife — 

More plentiful than hope. 

This day my Saviour rose. 
And did enclose tins light for His ; 
That, as each beast His manger knows, 
Man might not of his fodder miss. 
Christ hath took in this piece of ground, 
And made a garden there for those 

Who want herbs for their wound. 

The rest of our creation 
Our great Redeemer did remove, 
With the same shake, which at His Passion 
Did the earth and all things with it move. 
As Samson bore the doors away, 
Christ's hands,though nailed, wrought our salvation, 

And did unhinge that day. 



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Tlie brightness of that day 
We sullied by our foul offence ; 
Wherefore that robe we cant away, 
Haying a new at His expense, 
Whoso drops of blood paid the full price 
That was required to make us gay, 

And fit for Paradise. 

Tliou art a day of mirth ; 
And where the week-days trail on ground, 
Thy flight is higher, as thy birth ; 
O let me take thee at the bound, 
Groping with thee from seven to seven. 
Till that w^e both, being tossed from earth. 

Fly hand in hand to Ileayen ! 

HERBEllT. 



THE SHULAMITE AT THE LORD'S FEET. 

POOR heart ! why throb thus wildly in my 
breast ? 
The more I ponder on my Master's word, 
The more are doubts and fears within me stirr'd 
Long as my eyes on my own weakness rest. 

I to come forth I What, I ! 'Twas so He said — 
My wav'ring steps to others must be guide, 
My feeble arm must 'gainst the foe be tried ; 

There a whole world — and here a lowly maid ! 



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Ah, no, ray Lord ! and yet the call is Thine 1 
I fipoke 'jawisely, keejDing- self in sight ; 
I'll only look on Thy all-saving might — 

Be calm, my heai-t ! for my Beloved is mine. 

Yes, my Beloved is mine — what wouldst thou 
more ? 

The cause is His ! It is His work I do ! 

He is ray rock, my shield and buckler too ; 
Of strength and wisdom my unfailing store. 

And I am His. Oh, heart, be faithful still ! 
Still let Him lead me as it seems Him best I 
With Him to combat, or with Him to rest, 

March, ov encamp, according to His will. 

My Friend is mine, and I forever His : 
Himself he gave, myself to Him I give ; 
In me He dwells— in Him alone I live : 

Was ever union half so blest as this ? 

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--^. That, that alone can be my soul's true rest ; 
Thy love, not mine, bids fear and doubt depart, 
And stills the tempest of my tossiug breast. 




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It is Thy perfect love that casts out fear ; 

I know the voice that sj3eaks the " It is I ;" 
And in these well-kno'.vn woi'ds of heaven h/ cheer 

I hear the joy that bids each sorrow fly. 

Thy name is Love ! I hear it from yon Cross ; 

Thy name is Love ! I read it in yon tomb ; 
All meaner love is perishable dross, 

But this shall light me through time's thickest 
gloom. 



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It blesses now, and shall forever bless ; 

It saves me now, and shall forever save ; 
It holds me up in days of helplessness, 

It bears me s-afcly o'er each swelling wave. 

Girt with the love of God on every side, 

Breathing that love as Heaven's own healing air, 

I work or wait, still following my guide. 
Braving each foe, escaping every snare, 

'Tis what I know of Thee, my Lord and God; 

That fills my soul with peace, my lips with song ; 
Thou art my health, my joy, my staff and rod ; 

Leaning on Thee, in weakness I am strong. 

[ am all want and hunger ; this faint heart 
Pines for a fullness which it finds not here ; 

Dear ones are leaving, and, as they depart, 
Make room witliin for something yet more dear, 
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More of Thyself, oh, show me hour by hour 
More of thy glory, O my God and Lord ! 

More of Thyself in all Thy grace and power, 
More of Thy love and truth, Incarnate Word ! 

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THE SHEEP-TRACK. 

TWO ways : only two. One leadeth 
Home to the land of rest, 
And the Good Shepherd guides the flock He 
feedeth, 
The road He knowetli best. 

The feeble lamb, within His bosom hiding, 

Is precious as the strong ; 
The sick He tends : in sweet compassion guiding 

The weary one with young. 

He leads them forth, He goeth out before them ; 

And where the two ways meet. 
They look to Him, whose eye is watching o'er them, 

To guide their wavering feet. 

They own a mark by which, the Master claims them, 

Though oft the sign seems dim ; 
And well they know the Shepherd King whc 
names them — 

They hear and follow Him. 

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Sweet sounds His voice. All other calls unheeding. 

They watch where He may lead ; 
And in His face of love His wishes reading, 

The flock that truck will tread. 

Narrow it is, and rough, and often lonely, 

Upon the mountain steep : 
There's room for Jesus, and for Jesus only, 

And for His timid sheep. 

Around spread flowery fields where in their blind- 
ness 
The careless ones would roam : 
Sharp seems the Shepherd's rod that fa^s io kind- 
ness 
To bring the wanderers home. 

Fierce howls the wolf, and adders creep around 
them ; 

But succor He will send ; 
For He who in the wilderness first found them 

Will keep them to the end. 

Two ways : only two. The other bendeth 

Down unto hell beneath ! 
Broad is the gate, and frantic mirth ascendeth 

From crowds that rush to death. 



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Ifo lieavenly friend will soothe their hopeles sor* 

row, 

No arm their burden bear ; 
Ko fold of rest awaits them on the morrow, 
Ko ShejDherd King is there. 

For tliem death's bondage, and a night of weeping 

That hath.no dawn of day. 
Oh, Christ ! who o'er Thy flock Thy watch art 
keeping, 

Thou art the Truth, the Way ! 

ANNA SHTPTON. 




''IN ALL TIME OF OUR TRIBULATION', 
GOOD LORD, DELIVER US!" 

SAVIOUR ! by Thy sweet compassion, 
So unmeasured, so Divine ; 
By that bitter, l)itter Passion ; 

By that crimson Cross of Thine ; 
By the woes Thy love once tasted 
In this sin-marred world below, 
Succor those in tribulation, 
Succor those in sorrow now. 

Thou Who wast so sorely burdened, 
Help the weak that are ojjpressed ; 

Sanctily all earthly crosses. 
For the coming day of rest ; 



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''GOOD LORD, DELIVER US!" Iq: 

Give the meek a trustful spirit 

That will always lean on Thee, 
And in storms of deep affliction 

Still Thy gracious Presence see. 

Lord, Thou hast a holy purpose 

In each suffering we bear ; 
In each throe of pain and terror, 

In each secret, silent tear ; 
[n the weary days of sickness, 

Famine, want, and loneliness ; 
In our night-time of bereavement, 

In our soul's Lent-bitterness. 

All the needful sweet correction 

Of this gentle Hand of Thine, 
All Thy wise and careful nurture, 

All Thy faultless discipline : 
AU to purge the precious metal. 

Till it will reflect Thy face ; 
All to shape and polish jewels 

Thine Own diadem to grace. 

Lord, we know that we must ever 

Take our cross and follow Thee 
All along the narrow pathway, 

If we would Thy glory sec. 
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Then, oh, help us each to bear it, 
By Thine own hard life of shame ; 

i^ct us suffer well and meekly. 
Let us glorify Thy name. 

Cheer the weak ones who are bending 

'Neath this weary burden now ; 
Lift the pallid faces upward, 

Smooth the care-worn, furrowed brow ; 
Send a bright and hopeful message 

To each tried and tempted heart. 
That the thick and gloomy shadows 

At that sunshine may depart. 

Tell them Thou canst see all sorrow 

In this world's rough wilderness ; 
Tell them Thou art near to succor, 

Near to comfort and to bless ; 
Tell them of Thy Cross and Passion, 

Tell them of Thy trials sore, 
Tell them of the Angel-city 

Where is joy for evermore. 

ADA CAMBllIDGE. 



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PEACE to this house ! O Thou Whose way 
Was on the waves, Whose voice did stay 
The wild wind's rage, come, Lord, and say. 
Peace to this house ! 



Thou, Who in pity for the weak 
Didst quit Thy heavenly Throne to seek 
And save the lost, come. Lord, and speak 
Peace to this house ! 

Thou, Who dost all our sorrows know, 
And when our tears of anguish flow 
Dost feel compassion, come, bestow 
Peace on this house ! 

Thou, Who in agony didst pray, 
" Take, Father, take this cuj) away," 
And then wast strengthened, come and say, 
Peace to this house ! 

O Conqueror by suffering ! 
O mighty Victor ! glorious King ! 
From out of pain and sorrow bring 
Peace to this house ! 



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Tboii, Who triumphant from tlie dead 
Thine Hands didst o'er the Apostles spread, 
And say, " Peace to you,"^ome, and shed 
Peace on this house ! 

TJiou, Who didst on the clouds ascend, 
And then the Holy Spirit send, 
Send Him to comfort, and defend 
All in this house ! 

Lord, in the Sacramental food 
Of Thine own Body and Thy Blood, 
Peace that is felt, not understood, 
Give to this house ! 

Save, save us sinking in the deep, 
Give ease from pain and quiet sleep, 
And under Thy wing's shelter keep 
All in this house ! 

" Peace to this house," come, Lord, and say ; 
Come to U3, Lord, and witli us stay ; 
Oh, give, and never take away 
Peace from this house ! 

And when at last our fainting breath 
On trembling lips scarce quivereth, 
Oh, bring us through the gate of Death, 
Lord, to Thine House 1 




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THE MYSTER Y OF CHRIST. I65 

To Thine own House in Paradise, 
To Thine own House above the skies, 
To live the life that never dies, 
Lord, in Thine House ! 

C. WORDSWORTn. 




THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST. 

IMA.RVEL uight and day, and cannot cease — 
Ask evermore, Can this thing be ? 
Heaven brought to earth — her Maker made my 
peace, 
God bound, to set me free I 

I cannot love Thee as I would and ought : 

But, by Thy grace presenting still. 
From all things else to Thee returns my thought, 

And brings Thee back my will. 

All thoughts, all searches, to this centre tend ; 

All rays in this one focus meet ; 
Here, as of old, the wise men journeying send 

Their treasures at Thy feet. 

There is no record, but doth hint of Thee ; 

All history else were false and vain : 
The stones Thy kingdom preach ; loosed with triis 
key. 

All hardest tliiTigs are plain. 



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106 THE MYSTER Y OF CHRIST. 

There is no wisdom but dotli taste of Thine ; 

All lights that did Thine own forerun 
Caught Thy prevenient gleams, as clouds Ihut 
shine 

In the unrisen sun. 

The glories of earth's empires, age by age 

Submitting grandly to decay, 
Were but the' illusive dawn that did presage 

Thy fixed and perfect day. 

Art's beauteous dreams, the charm of thought and 
song, 

The majesty of rule and law, 
The single mind outsoaring from the throng, 

Gifted a world to draw, — 



What were they all but preludes poor and faint 

Of Thy supreme imperial reign 
In glory and in beauty, when each saint 

Thy likeness shall attain ? 

Thou hast been here ; of old, as now, 
Walking unseen the paths we go ; 

LBut in the central years, one lifetime. Thou 
Thy visible form didst show. 

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■ THE GIVER AND THE GIFTS. 167 ^ 

A cloud did steal Thee from us ; but that hour 

Thy glorious ministry began ; 
Tliou gav'st the word — from thence, with quick- 
ening power, 

That word the earth o'erran. 

Thou art not gone, but hidden ; to our sense 

Thou shalt return ; Thou didst not show 
Thy glory at the first, whose height immense 

Stooped to our stature low. 

Till Thy true advent dawn, Thy Church, like Thee, 

Shall sufier, die, and rise again ; 
Then, glorified, made white, eternally 

With Thee on earth shall reign. 

CHARLES LAURENCE FORD. 



THE GIVER AND THE GIFTS 

rflHE path I trod so pleasant was and fair, 
JL I counted it life's best ; 

Forgetting that Thou, Lord, hadst placed me there 
To journey towards Thy rest. 

Forgetting that the path was only good 

Because the homeward way, 
[ held it fullest beauty where I stood— 

I thought these gleams the day. 



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1(38 THE GIVER AND THE GIFTS. 

I know I might have seen in every star 

That sheds its light on me, 
A lamp of Thine, set out to guide from far 

My steps towards home and Thee ; — 

Have heard in streams with bending grasses clad, 

"Which sparkled through the sod, 
The music of the river that makes glad 

The city of our God ; — 

In flowers plucked but to wither in my hand, 

Or passed with lingering feet, 
Have read my Father's promise of a land 

Wliere flowers are still more sweet. 

And I have knelt, how often, thanking Thee 

For what Thy love hath given. 
Then turned away to bend to these my knee, 

And seek in these my Heaven. 

Forgive me that I, looking for the day, 

Forget whence it would shine ; 
And turned Thy helps to reasons for delay, 

And loved not Thee, but Thine. 

YeX most for the cold heart with which I write 

Of sin so faintly felt : — 
Tliis frost of doubt, this darkness as of night 

Thv love can cheer and melt. 






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"/ WILL arise:' 169 




On mc unworthy shed, O Lord, the glow 

Of Thy dear light and love, 
That I may walk with trusting faith below. 

Towards the fair land above ; 

That I may learn in all Thy gifts to see 

The love that on me smiled, 
And find in all I have a thought of Thee, 

Who thus hast blessed Thy child ; 

And most in what Thy tenderest love hath given 

Those to my heart most dear ; 
May I through these look upward to Thy Heaven, 

In these find Thee most near. 

LUCY FLETCHEK. 



'«/ WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER." 

I ASK if Thou canst love me still, O God ? 
They say Thou canst not love so weak a thing — 
One that was angered by a Father's rod, 
One that hath wayward and rebellious been, 
Unstable, thankless,. prone to every sin. 
Thou knowest all — yet whither shall I go, 
To leave my sins and with them leave my woe, 
Except to Thee, who only help canst bring. 
And bid me live thy pi^rdoniug love to sing ? 
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170 WAKING. I 

I como, my sinful thouglits have vexed me long ; 

I fly, for evil spirits round me throng, 

And I am weak, but Thou, my God, art sti'ong I 

My tears are flowing — no, Tliou canst not see 

Thy child in anguish and not pity me. 

I lay my head upon thy infinite heart, 

I liide beneath the shelter of thy wing ; 

Pursued, and tempted, helj^less, I must cling 

To Thee, my Father ; bid me not depart. 

For sin and death pursue, and life is where Thou art i 

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Pede Cruets. 



W A K 1 1^ G. 

HAVE done, at length, with dreaming ; 
Henceforth, O Thou Soul of mine. 
Thou must take up sword and gaimtlet, 

Waging warfare most divine. 
Life is struggle, combat, victory — 

Wherefore have I slumbered on 
With my forces all unmarshaled. 

With my weapons all undrawn ? 
Oh, how many a glorious record 

Had the angel of me kept. 
Had I done instead of doubted, 

Had I warred instead of wept I 



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WAKING. 171 

But, begone ! regret, bewailing, 

Ye but weaken at the best ; 
I have tried the trusty weapons 

Resting erst within my breast : 
I have wakened to my duty, 

To a knowledge strong and deep, 
That I dreamed not of aforetime 

In my long, ingloiious sleep : 
For to lose is something awful, 

And I knew it not before ; 
And I dreamed not how stupendous 

Was the secret that I bore — 
The great, deep, mysterious secret 

Of a life to be wrought out 
Into warm, heroic action, 

Weakened not by fear or doubt. 
In this subtle sense of living. 

Newly stirred in every vein, 
I can feel a throb electric, 

Pleasure half-allied to pain. — 
'Tis so great — and yet so awful — 

So bewildering, yet so brave, 
To be king in every conflict 

Where before I crouched a slave. 
It's so glorious to be conscious 

Of a glorious power within, 
Stronger than the rallying forces 

Of a charged and marshaled sin. 






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1 72 KOTIIING JJ UT LtJA VES. 




Kever in tliose old romances 

Felt I half the sense of life 
That I feel within me stirring 

Standing in the place of strife. 
Oh, those olden days of dalliance, 

When I wantoned with my fate, 
When I trifled with a knowledge 

That well-ni<?h had come too late 
Yet, my Soul, look not behind thee, 

Thou hast work to do at last ; 
Let the brave toil of the Present 

Overarch the cruml^ling Past ; 
Build thy great acts high, and higher, 

Build them on the conquered sod 
Where thy weakness first fell bleeding. 

And thy first j^rayer rose to God. 

CAROLINE A. BRIGG& 



NOTIIIXG BUT LEAVES. 

I^OTHING but leaves: the spirit grieves 
jlI Over a wasted life. 
Sins committed while conscience slept ; 
Promises made, but never kept ; 
Hatred, battle, and strife — 
Kothino; but leaves. 



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Nothing but leaves : no garnered sheaves 
Of life's fair ripened grain ; 






PA UZ GERIIA RD T 'S IIYMK 1^3 

"Words, idle words, for earnest deeds. 
We sow our seed— lo ! tares and weeds : 
Go reap witli toil and pain 
Notliing but leaves. 

Nothing but leaves : memory weaves 

No veil to sever tlie past ; 
As we return our weary way. 
Counting each lost and misspent day. 

We find sadly, at last. 

Nothing but leaves. 

And shall we meet the Master so, 

Bearing our withered leaves ? 
The Saviour looks for perfect fruit : 
We stand before Him, humbled, mute, 

Waiting the word He breathes — 
Nothing; but leaves. 



PAUL GERHARDTS HYMN 

COIVIETH sunshine after rain, 
After morning joy again; 
After heavy, bitter grief, 
Dawneth surely sweet relief: 

And my soul, who, from her height, 
Sank to realms of woe and night, 
Wingeth now to heaven her flight. 
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5 1 74 PA UL GERHA K D T \S HYMN. 




He whom this world dares not face, 
Hath refreshed me with His grace. 
And His mighty Hand unbound, 
Chains of hell about me wound ; 

Quicker, stronger, leaps my blood, 
Since His mercy, like a flood, 
Poured o'er all my heart for good. 

Bitter anguish have I borne. 
Keen regret my heart hath torn. 
Sorrow dimmed my weeping eyes, 
Satan blinded me with lies : 

Yet at last am I set free, 
Help, protection, love, to me 
Once more true companions be. 

Ne'er was left a helpless prey, 

Ne'er with shame was turned away, — 

He who gave himself to God, 

Ajid on him had cast a load ; 

Who in God his hope hath placed. 
Shall not life in pain outwaste, 
Fullest joy he yet shall taste. 



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" 7;:j!i'>s:/' kemainetji:' 

J>^ST I2BMAINETR— oh, how sweet 

Flowery fields for wandering feet, 
Peaceful calm for sleepless eyes, 
Life for deatli, and songs for sighs. 

liest remalneth — hush that sigh ; 
Mourning pilgrim, rest is nigh ; 
Yet a season, bright and blest, 
Thou shalt enter on thy rest. 

Rest remalneth — rest from sin — 
Guilt can never enter in ; 
Every warring thought shall cease — 
Rest in purity and peace. 

Best remalneth — rest from tears. 
Rest from parting, rest from fears ; 
Every trembling thought shall be 
Lost, my Saviour — lost in Thee. 

Rest remalneth — oh, how blest I 
We believe, and we have rest ; 
Faith, reposing faith, hath been 
'JVIongst the things that are not seen. 



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170 " ^ SHALL BE SA TISFIEDr 

Thus, my Saviour, let me be 
Even here at rest in Thee, 
And, at last, by Thee possessed, 
On Thy bosom sink to rest. 

From '' Dark Sayings on a llariyT 



"/ SHALL BE SATLSFLED:' 

'H'OT HERE! not here! not where the spark- 
.J\ ling waters 

Fade into mocking sands, as we draw near ; 
Where in the wilderness each footstep falters : 
I shall be satisfied — but oh, not here ! 

Not here — where every dream of bliss deceives us, 
Where the worn spii'it never gains its goal ; 
Where, haunted ever by the thought that grieves us, 
Across us flopds of bitter memory roll. 

There is a land where every pulse is thrilling 
With raptm-e earth's sojourners may not know ; 
"Where heaven's rei^ose the weary heart is stilling, 
And peacefully life's time-toss'd currents flow. 

Far out of sight, while yet the flesh infolds us, 
Lies the fair country wbere our hearts abide, 
And of its bliss is naught more wondi'ous told ua 
Than these few w ords : " I shall be satisfied 1" 



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JES US, I AM I^E VER WE A RY. 177 



Satisfied ! satisfied ! the sj^irit's yearning 
For sweet companionship with kindred minds ; 
The silent love that here meets no returning, 
The inspiration yfhich no language finds. 

Shallthej be satisfied ? — the soul's yague longing?, 
The aching void which nothing earthly fills ? 

what desires upon my soul are thronging, 
As I look upward to the heavenly hills ! 

Thither my weak and weary feet are tending — 
Saviour and Lord, with Thy frail child abide ; 
Guide me toward home, where, all my wanderi iiga 
ended, 

1 then shall see I'liee and " be satisfied !" 



JESUS, I AAf NEVER WEARY. 

JESUS, I am never weary. 
When upon this bed of pain ; 
If Thy presence only cheer me, 
All ray loss I count but gain : 

Ever near me. 
Ever near me. Lord, remain ! 

Dear ones come with fruits and floT.crg, 
Thus to cheer my heart the while, 



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1*78 JESUS, I AM NEVER WEART. 



In these deeply anxious hours ; 
Oh ! if Jesus only smile ! — 

Only Jesus 
Can these troubling fears bi'guile. 

All my sins wer(3 laid upon Tiiee, 
Ail my griefs were on Thee laid ; 

For the blood of Thine atonement 
All my utmost debts has paid : 

Dearest Saviour ! 
I believe, for Thou hast said. 

Dearest Saviour ! go not from me ; 

Let Thy presence still abide ; 
Look in tenderest love upon me— 

I am sheltering at Thy side, 
Dearest Saviour ! 

Whc for suffering sinners died. 

Botli mine arms are clasped around Thee, 
And my head is on Thy breast ; 

For my weary soul has found Thee 
Such a perfect, perfect rest. 

Dearest Saviour ! 
Now I know that I am blest. 

Mils. WEISS. 



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WE SHALL SEE JIIM AS HE IS. 1^9 



WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS. 

VrOT as He was, a liouseless stranger, 
i.^ With no home to shield His head ; 
Not as seen in Bethlehem's manger, 
Where the horned oxen fed ; — 

Not as in the Garden groaning, 
Plunged in cieep, mysterious woe, 

All the guilt of man bemoaning, 

While the precious blood-sweats flow — 

Not as seen on Calvary's mountain, 
Where He olfered up His soul. 

Opening wide that sacred Fountain, 
Wliich alone can make us whole ; — 

Not as He was, a pale and breathless 
Captive in the shades beneath, — 

But as He is. Immortal, Deathless, 
Conqueror o'er the j)owers of death I 

Yes ! we shall see Him in our nature. 

Seated on His lofty Throne — 
Loved, adored by every creature — 

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180 CONTENTMENT. 






There countlesjj hosts of shiniug spirits 
Strike their harps, and loudly sing 

To the praise of Jesus' merits, 
To the gloiy of their King 1 

Wlien we pass o'er death's dark river, 

"We shall see Him as He is — 
Resting in His loye and favcr, 
Owning all the glory His. 

There to cast our crriwns before Him — 
Oh, what bliss the thought affords ! 

There forever to adore Him — 

King of kings and Lord of lords I 



CONTENTMENT. 

I)E thou content ; be still before 
} His face, at whose right hand doth reign 
Fullness of joy for evermore, 
. Without whom all thy toil is vain : '{ 

He is thy living spring, thy sun, vfh»"»se rays r! 

Make glad with life and light thy dreary daya, \ 

Be thou content, ij 

In Him i^ comfort, light, and grace, ! 

And changeless love beyond our thought ; i 

The sorest pang, the worst disgrace, '{ 

If He is there, shall hann tJice not. • 



HA VE FAITH IN GOD. 181 

He can lift off thy cross, and loose thy bands, 
And calm thy fears • nay, death is in His hands : 
Be thou content. 

Or art thou friendless and alone, 

Hast none in whom thou canst confide ? 

God careth for thee, lonely one — 
Comfort and help He will provide. 

He sees thy sorrows, and thy hidden grisf, 

He knoweth when to send thee quick relief: 
Be thou content. 

lliy heart's unspoken pain He knows. 
Thy secret sighs He hears full well ; 

What to none else thou dar'st disclose. 
To Him thou may'st with boldness tell. 

He is not far away, but ever nigh. 

And answereth willingly the poor man's ci*y : 
Be thou content. 



HA VE FAITH IN GOT). 

HAVE faith in God ! for He who reigns on liigi 
Hath borne thy grief and hears the suj)pli 
ant's sigh ; 
Still to His arms, thine only refuge, fly. 
Have faith in God I 
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182 BREAD UPON THE WATERS. 



Fear not to call on Him, O soul distressed ! 
Thy sorrow's whisper woos thee to His breast ; 
He who is oftenest there is oftenest Idlest. 
Have faith in God ! 

Lean :iot on Egypt's reeds ; slake not thy thirst 
At earthly cisterns. Seek the kingdom first. 
Though man and Satan fright thee with their 
worst, 

Have faith in God ! 

Go ! tell Him all ! The sigh thy bosom heaves 
Is heard in heaven. Strength and grace He gives, 
Who gave Himself for thee. Our Jesus lives. 
Have faith in God ! 

ANNA SHIPTON. 



BREAD UrON THE WATERS. 

SAY not, " 'Twas all in vain," 
The anguish, and the darkness, and the strife ; 
Love thrown upon the waters comes again 
In quenchless yearnings for a nobler life. 
Tliink ! In that midnight, on thy w^eary sight 
The stars shone forth, and 'neath their welcomo 
rays 
Thine hopes to Heaven like birds first took their 
flight, 
And " thou shalt find them — after many days," 



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BREAD UPON THE WATERS. 183 

Say not, " 'Twas all in vain," 

The vigil, and the sickness, and the tears ; 
For in that Land " whore there is no more pain," 

The grain is garnered from those mournful years. 
The faded torm, once sheltered on thy breast, 

In gentle ministry thy care repays ; 
And smiling on thee from her sinless rest, 

Fear not to find her — " after many days." 

Say not, '' 'Twas all in vain," 

Thy tenderness, thy meekness — oh, not so ! 
A strength for others' sufferings shalt thou gain. 

As healing balms from bruised flowerets flow. 
Weep not the wealth in fearless faith cast forth 

On the dark billows sliiiD wrecked to thy gaze ; 
The bark was frail, the gem had still its worth. 

And " thou shalt find it — after many days." 

Say not, '• 'Twas all in vain," 
The watching, and the waiting, and the prayer ; 
In pierced liands hath it unassumcd lain ; 

'Twill grow more radiant as it lingereth there. 
'Tis space — where once, thy quiveiing form waa 
cast, 
Thy heart-wrung sobs no floating breeze betrays , 
Yet, 'mid the white-winged choir thy prayer hath 
passed. 
And " thou shalt find it— after many days." 




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184 REST FOR THE WEARY. 



Say not, " 'Twas all in vain," 

The patience, and the pity, and the word 
In warning breathed 'mid passion's hurricane, 

Unheeded here — but God that whisi^er heard, 
The tender grief, o'er strangers' sorrow shed, 

The sacinlice that won no human praise. 
In faith upon the waters cast thy Bread, 

For " thou shalt find it — after many days." 

ANNA. SHIPTON, 



REST FOR THE WEARY. 

VrOT long, not long ! The spirit-wasting fever 
i^ Of this strange life shall quit each throbbing 

vein ; 
And this wild pulse flow placidly forever ; 
And endless peace relieve the burning brain. 

Earth's joys are but a dream ; its destiny 
Is but decay and death. Its fairest fomi 

Sunshine and shadow mixed. Its brightest day 
A rainbow braided on the wreaths of storm. 

Yet there is blessedness that changeth not ; 

A rest with God, a life that cannot die ; 
A better portion, and a brighter lot ; 

A home with Christ, a heritage on high. 



THE OFFERING. 185 



Hope for the hopeless, for the weary rest, 
More gentle than the still repose of even ! 

Joy for the joyless, bliss for the unblest ; 
Homes for the desolate iu yonder heaven. 

The tempest makes returning calm more dear ; 

The darkest midnight makes the brightest star ; 
Even so to us, when all is ended here, 

Shall be the j)ast, remembered from afar. 

Then welcome change and death ! since these 
alone 

Can break life's fetters, and dissolve its spell ; 
Welcome all present change, which speeds us on 

So swift to that which is unchano-eable. 



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THE OFFERING. 

"ITO more my own. Lord Jesus ; 
-.1 Bought with Thy precious Blood. 
I give Thee but Thine own, Lord, 
That long Thy love withstood. 

I give the life Thou gaveat, 

My j)resent, future, past ; 
My joys, my fears, my sorrows, 

My first hope and my last. 
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I give Theo up my weakness 
That oft distrust hatli bred, 

lliat Thy indwelling power 
May thus be perfected. 

I give the love the sweetest 
Thy goodness grants to me ; 

Take it, and make it meet, Lord, 
For offering to Thee. 

Smile ! and the very shadows 
In Thy blest light shall shine ; 

Take Thou my heart, Lord Jesus, 
For Thou hast made it Thine. 

Thou know'st my soul's ambition, 
For Thou hast changed its aim r 

(The Tvorld's reproach I fear not,) 
To share a Saviour's shame : 

Outside the camp to suffer ; 

Within the Vail to meet. 
And hear Thy softest whisper 

From out the Mercy-seat. 

Thou bear'st me on Thy bosom. 

Amidst Thy jewels worn, 
Upon Thy hands deep graven, 

By arms of love upborne. 



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^EOLD ON, HOLD IN, HOLD OUT. 187 



Rescued from sin's destruction, 
Ransomed from death and hell ; 

Complete in Thee, Lord Jesus : 
Thou hast done all things well ! 

Oil, deathless love that bought me ! 

Oh, pnce beyond my ken ! 
Oh, Life, that hides my own life 

E'en from my fellow-men ! 

Now fashion, form, and fill me 
With light and love Divine ; 

So, ONE with Thee, Lord Jesus, 
I'm Thine — forever Thine ! 

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HOLD ON, HOLD IN, HOLD OUT. 

HOLD on, my heart, in thy believing ! 
The steadfast only wins the crown. 
He who, vdien stormy waves are heaving, 
Parts with his anchor, shall go down ; 
But he who Jesus holds through all, 
Shall stand, though heaven and earth shall fall 

Hold in thy murmurs, heaven arraigning ! 

The patient see God's loving face : 
Who bear their burdens uncomplaining, 

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He wounds himself who bears the rod, 
And sets himself to fight with God. 

Hold out ! There comes an end to sorrow ; 

Hope from the dust shall conquering rise ; 
The storm foretells a sunnier morrow ; 

The Cross points on to Paradise. 
The Father reigneth ; cease all doubt ; 
Hold on, my heart, hold in, hold out ! 

SCnMACKBS. 



GO TELL JESUS. 

BURY thy sorrow, 
The world has its share 
Bury it deeply, 
Hide it with care. 



Think of it calmly 

When curtained by night. 
Tell it to Jesus, 

And all will be right. 

Tell it to Jesus, 

He knoweth thy grief ; 
Tell it to Jesus, 

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Gather the sunlight 
Aglow on thy way ; 

Gather the moonbeams, 
Each soft silver ray. 

Hearts grown aweary 
With heavier woe, 

Droop 'mid the darkness- 
Go comfort them, go I 

Buiy thy sorrow, 
Let others be blest ; 

Give them the* sunshine, 
Tell Jesus the rest. 



A PSALM FOE JVFIV YEAR'S EVE. 

A FRIEND stands at the door ; 
In either tight-closed hand 
Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and three-score ; 

Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land 
Even as seed the sower. 
Each drop he treads it in and passes by : 
It cannot be made fruitful till it die. 

Oh, good Kew Year, we clasp 
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190 ^ PSALM FOR KEW YEAR'S EVE. 



Loosing forever, with half-sigh, half-grasp, 

That which from ours falls like dead fingers' 
twine : 

Ay, whether fierce its grasp 

Has been, or gentle, having been, we know 
That it was blessed ; let the Old Year go. 

Oh, New Year, teach us faith ! 

The road of life is hard ; 
When our feet bleed, and scourging winds us 
scathe. 
Point thou to Him whose visage was more 
marred 
Than any man's ; who saith 

" Make straight paths for your feet — " and to 

the opprcst — 
'' Come ye to Me, and I will give you rest." 

Yet hang some lamp-like hope 

Above this unknown way. 
Kind year, to give our spirits freer scope, 

And our hands strength to work while it is day 
But if that way must slope 

Tombward, oh, bring before our fading eyes 

The lamp of life, the Hope that never dies I 

Comfort our souls with love, — 
Love of all human kind; 




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Love special, close — in wbicli like sheltered dove 
Each weary heart its own safe nest may find ; 

And love that turns above 

Adoringly : contented to resign 

All loves, if need be, for the Love Divine. 

Friend, come thou like a friend, 

And whether bright thy face, 
Or dim with clouds we cannot comprehend,— 

We'll hold our patient hands, each in his place, 
And trust thee to the end ; 

Knowing thou leadest onwards to those spheres 

Where there are neither days-, nor months, nor 
years. 

D. M. MULOCH. 



THE CELESTIAL COUNTRY. 

THE world is very evil ! 
The times are waxing late : 
Be sober, and keep vigil ; 

The Judge is at the gate : 
The Judge That comes m mercy. 

The Judge that comes with might, 
To terminate the evil, 

To diadem the right. 
When the just and gentle Monarch 

Shall summon from the tomb, 

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Let man, the guilty, tremble. 

For Man, the God, shall doom. 
Arise, arise, good Christian, 

Let right to wrong succeed ; 
Let penitential sorrow 

To heavenly gladness lead ; 
To the light that hath no evening, 

That knows nor moon nor sun 
The light so new and golden, 

The light that is but one. 
And when the Sole-Begotten 

Shall render up once more 
The kingdom to the FATirER 

Whose own it was before, — 
Then glory yet unheard of 

Shall shed abroad its ray, 
Resolving all enigmas. 

An endless Sabbath-day. 
Then, then from his oppressors 

The Hebrew shall go free, 
And celebrate in triumph 

The year of Jubilee ; 
And the sunlit Land that recks no* 

Of tempest nor of fight, 
Shall fold within its bosom 

Each happy Israelite : 
The Home of fadeless splendor, 

Of flowers that fear no thorn, 



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Where tliey shall dwell as children, 

Who here as exiles mourn. 
Midst power that knows no limit, 

And wisdom free from bound, 
The Beatific Vision 

Shall glad the Saints around : 
The peace of all the faithful, 

The calm of all the blest. 
Inviolate, unvaried, 

Divinest, sweetest, best. 
Yes, peace ! for war is needless, — 

Yes, calm ! for storm is past, — 
And goal from finished labor. 

And anchorage at last. 
That peace — but who may claim it ? 

The guileless in their way, 
Who keep the ranks of battle, 

Who mean the thing they say : 
The peace that is for heaven, 

And shall be for the earth : 
The palace that re-echoes 

With festal song and mirth ; 
The garden, breathing spices, 

The paradise on high : 
Grace beautified to glory, 

Unceasing minstrelsy. 
There nothing can be feeble, 

There none can ever mourn. 



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There notliing is divided, 

There nothing can be torn : 
"Tis fury, ill, and scandal, 

'Tis peaceless peace below ; 
Peace, endless, strifeless, ageless, 

The halls of Syon know : 
O happy, holy portion, 

Refection for the blest • 
True vision of true beauty. 

Sweet cure of all distress I 
Strive, man, to win that glory ; 

Toil, man, to gain that light ; 
Send hope before to grasp it, 

Till hope be lost in sight : 
Till Jesus gives the portion 

Those blessed souls to fill, 
The insatiate, yet satisfied, 

The full, yet craving still. 
That fullness and that craving 

Alike are free from pain, 
Where thou, midst heavenly citizena 

A home like theirs shalt gain. 
Here is the warlike trumpet ; 

There, life set fi"ce from sin ; 
When to the last Great Supper 

The faithful shall come in : 
When the heavejily net is laden 

With fishes many and great : 




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So glorious in its fullness, 

Yet so inviolate : 
And the perfect from the shattered, 

And the fall'n from them that stand, 
And the sheep-flock from the goat-herd 

Shall part on either hand : 
And these shall pass to torment, 

And those shall triumph, then ; 
The new peculiar nation, 

Blest number of blest men, 
Jerusalem demands them : 

They paid the price on earth. 
And now shall reap the harvest 

In blissfulness and mirth : 
The glorious holy people, 

Who evermore relied 
Upon their Chief and Father, 

The King, the Crucified : 
The sacred ransomed number 

Now bright with endless sheen. 
Who made the Cross their watch-word 

Of Jesus Nazarene : 
Who, fed with heavenly nectar. 

Where foul-like odors play. 
Draw out the endless leisure 

Of that long vernal day : 
And through the sacred lilies, 

And flowers on every side, 



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The happy dear-bought people 

Go wandering far and wide. 
Their breasts are filled with gladness^ 

Their mouths are tuned to praise, 
What time, now safe forever, 

On former sins they gaze : 
The fouler was the error, 

The sadder was the fall, 
The ampler are the praises 

Of Him Wlio pardoned all. 
Their one and only anthem, 

The fullness of His love. 
Who gives, instead of torment, 

Eternal joys above : 
Instead of torment, gloiy ; 

Instead of death, that life 
Wherewith your happy Country, 

True Israelties ! is rife. 

Brief life is here our portion ; 

Brief sorrow, short-lived care - 
The life that knows no ending 

The tearless life, is there. 
O happy retribution ! 

Short toil, eternal rest ; 
For mortals and for sinners 

A mansion with the blest ! 
That we should look, poor wanderers, 



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To have our home on high ! 
That wonns should seek for dwellings 

Beyond the starry sky ! 
To all one happy guerdon 

Of one celestial grace ; 
For all, for all, who mourn their fall, 

Is one eternal place : 
And martyrdom hath roses 

Upon that heavenly ground : 
And white and virgin lilies 

For virgin-souls abound. 
There grief is turned to j)leasure ; 

Such pleasure, as below 
Ko human voice can utter, 

No human heart can kno\*' ' 
And after fleshly scandal. 

And after this world's night, 
And after storm and whirlwind, 

Is calm, and joy, and light. 
And now we fight the battle, 

But then shall wear the crown 
Of full and everlasting 

And passionless renown : 
And now we watch and struggle, 

And now we live in hope. 
And 'oyon, in her anguish, 

With Babylon must cope : 

But He Whom now we trust in 
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Shall til en be seen and known, 
And they that know and see Him 

Shall have Him for their own. 
Tlie miserable pleasures 

Of the body shall decay : 
The bland and flattering struggles 

Of the flesh shall pass away : 
And none shall there be jealous ; 

And none shall there contend ; 
Fraud, clamor, guile — what say I ? 

All ill, all ill shall end ! 
And there is David's Fountain. 

And life in fullest glow. 
And there the light is golden, 

And milk and honey flow : 
Tlic light that hath no evening, 

The health that hath no sore, 
The life that hath no ending. 
Bat lasteth evermore. 

There Jesus shall embrace us, 

There Jesus be embraced, — 
That spirit's food and sunshine 

Whence earthly love is chased. 
Amidst the happy chorus, 

A place, however low. 
Shall show Him us, and, showing, 

Shall satiate cvermo. 




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By liope we struggle onward, 

While liere we raust be fed 
By milk, as tender infants. 

But there by Living Bread. 
The night was full of terror. 

The morn is bright with gladness : 
The Cross becomes our harbor, 

And we triumph after sadness : 
Ar.d Jestjs to His true ones 

Brings troi)hies fair to see : 
And Jesus shall be loved, and 

Beheld in Galilee : 
Beheld, when mom shall waken, 

And shadows shall decay. 
And each true-hearted servant 

Shall shine as doth the day : 
And every ear shall hear it ; — 

Behold thy King's array : 
Behold thy God in beauty, 

The Law hath past away ! 
Yes ! God my King and Portion, 

In l\illness of His grace, 
We then shall see forever. 

And worship lace to face. 
Then Jacob into Israel, 

From earthlier self estranged, 
And Leah into Rachel 

Forever shall be changed : 



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Then all the halls of Syon 
For aye shall be complete, 

And, in the Land of Beauty 
All things of beauty meet. 



For thee, O dear, dear Country I 

Mine eyes their yigils keep ; 
For very love, beholding 

Thy happy name, they weep : 
The mention of thy glory 

Is unction to the breast, 
And medicine in sickness, 

And love, and life, and rest. 
O one, O oncly Mansion ! 

O Paradise of Joy ! 
Where tears are ever banished, 

And smiles have no alloy ; 
Beside thy living waters 

All plants are, great and small, 
The cedar of the forest. 

The hyssop of the wall : 
With jaspers glow thy bulwarks ; 

Thy streets with emeralds blaze ; 
The sardius and the topaz 

Unite in thee their rays : 
Thine ageless walls are bonded 

With amethyst unpriced : 




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Thy Saints build up its fabric, 

And the corner-stone is Christ. 
The Cross is all thy splendor, 

The Crucified thy praise : 
His laud and benediction 

Thy ransomed people raise : 
Jesus, the Gem of Beauty, 

True God and Man, they sing : 
The never-failing Garden, 

The ever-golden Ring : 
The Door, the Pledge, the Husband, 

The Guardian of his Court : 
The Day-star of Salvation, 

The Portsr and the Port. 
Thou hast no shore, fair ocean ! 

Thou hast no time, bright day I 
Dear fountain of refreshment 

To pilgrims far away ! 
Upon the Rock of Ages 

They raise thy holy tower : 
Thine is the victor's laurel, 

And thine the golden dower : 
Thou feel'st in mystic rapture, 

O Bride that know'st no guile, 
The Prince's sweetest kisses, 

The Prince's loveliest smile : 
Unfading lilies, bracelets 

Of living pearl thine own ; 



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The Lamb is ever near thee, 

The Bridegroom thine alone ; 
The Crown is He to guerdon, 

The Buckler to protect. 
And He Himself the Mansion 

And He the Architect. 
The only art thou ncedest, 

Thanksgiving for thy lot : 
The only joy thou seekest, 

The Life where Death is not : 
And all thine endless leisure 

In sweetest accents sings, 
The ill that was thy merit,. — 

The wealth that i? thy King's 1 

Jerusalem the golden, 

With milk and honey blest, 
Beneath thy contemplation 

Sink heart and voice oppressed : 
I know not, O I know not, 

What social joys are there ; 
What radiancy of glory. 

What light beyond compare I 
And when I fain would sing them, 

My spirit fails and faints ; 
And vainly would it image 

The assembly of the Saints. 
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Conjubilant with song, 
And bright with many an angel, 

And all the martyr throng : 
The Prince is ever in them ; 

The daylight is serene ; 
The pastures of the Blessed 

Are decked in glorious sheen. 
There is the throne of David, — 

And there, from care released, 
Tlie song of them that triumph, 

The shout of them that feast : 
And they who, with their Leader, 

Have conquered in the fight, 
Forever and forever 

Are clad in robes of whit« ! 

O holy, placid harp-notea 

Of that eternal hymn ! 
O sacred, sweet refection, 

And peace of Seraphim ! 
O thirst, forever ardent. 

Yet evermore content ! 
O true peculiar \nsion 

Of God cunctipotent I 
Ye know the many mansions 

For many a glorious name, 
And divers retributions 

That divers merits claim : 




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For midst tlie constellations 
That deck our eanhly sky, 

This star than that is brighter, — • 
And so it is on high. 



Jerusalem the glorious ! 

The glory of th' Elect I 
dear and future vision 

That eager hearts expect ; 
Even now by foith I see thee ; 

Even here thy walls discern : 
To thee my thoughts arc kindled, 

And strive and pant and yearn : 
Jerusalem the onely, 

That look'st from heaven below, 
In thee is all my glory ; 

In me is all my woe : 
And though my body may not, 

My spirit seeks thee fain, 
Till flesh and earth return me 

To earth and flesh again. 
O none can tell thy bulwarks, 

How gloriously they rise : 
O none can tell thy capitals 

Of beautiful device : 
Thy loveliness oppresses 

All human thought and heart : 




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A-nd none, O peace, O Syon, 

Can sing thee as thou art. 
New mansion of new people, 

Whom God's own love and light 
Promote, increase, make holy, 

Identify, unite. 
Thou City of the Angels ! 

Thou City of the Lord ! 
Whose everlasting music 

Is the glorious decachord !* 
And there the band of Prophets 

United praise ascribes. 
And there the twelve-fold chorus 

Of Israel's ransomed tribes : 
The lily-beds of virgins, 

The roses' martyr-glow, 
The cohort of the Fathers 

Who kept the faith below. 
And there the Sole-Begotten 

Is LoKD in regal state ; 
He, Judah's mystic Lion, 

He, Lamb Immaculate. 
O fields that know no sorrow ! 

O state that fears no strife ! 

• Decachord. With reference to the mystical explanation, 
which, seeing in the number ten a type of perfection, under- 
tandsthe "instrument of ten strings" of the perfect harmony 
of heaven. 



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O princely bow'rs ! O land of flow'rs ! 
O realm and home of life ! 



Jerusalem, exulting 

On that securest shore, 
I hope thee, wish thee, sing thee, 

And love thee evermore ! 
I ask not for my merit : 

I seek not to deny 
My merit is destruction, 

A child of wrath am I : 
But yet with Faith I venture 

And Hope upon my way ; 
For those j^erennial guerdons 

I labor night and day. 
The Best and Dearest Father 

Who made me and Who saved, 
Bore with mc in defilement, 

And from defilement laved : 
When in His strength I struggle, 

For very joy I leap. 
When in my sin I totter, 

I weep, or try to weep : 
And grace, sweet grace celestial, 

Shall all its love display. 
And David's Royal Fountain 

Purge every sin away. 




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O mine, my golden Syon ! 

O lovelier far than gold ! 
\Yitli laurel-girt battalions, 

And safe victorious fold : 
O sweet and blessed Country, 

Shall I ever see thy face ? 

sweet and blessed Country, 
Shall I ever win thy grace ? 

1 liave the hope within me 
To comfort and to bless ! 

Shall I ever win the lorize itself? 
O tell me, tell mc. Yes ! 

Exult, O dust and ashes I 

The Lord shall be thy paii; : 
His only, His forever, 

Thou shalt be, and thou art ! 
Exult, O dust and ashes I 

The Lord shall be thy part : 
His only, His forever. 

Thou shalt be, and thou art ! 



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TAKE HEART OF GRACE:' 



II, tnoii ! who tossing on life's troubled ocean, 
Mournest the hidings of thy Father's face, 
And comfortless, amid the wild commotion, 
Seekest in vain some quiet resting-place ; 
Thou weary, fainting soul ! " take heart of 
grace." 

Look up ! when storms of woe are round thee 
sweeping. 
Learn thou in all thy Saviour's hand to trace : 
Above the storm, behind the dark clouds, keeping 
Ceaseless watch a'er thee, beams my loving face ; 
Therefore, thou faithless one ! take heart of 
grace. 

Not all the fiercest tempests round thee blowing. 
Can drive thee far from heaven's sweet resting- 
p>lace ; 

Not all the floods thy sorrowing soul o'erflowing, 
Can long avail to hide from thee my face ; 
Therefore, O downcast soul ! take heart of grace. 

Oh, waste no more thy breath in weak complain-i 
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Perfects tliee thus for my own dwelling-place. 
O thou rebellious soul ! take heart of grace. 

Hast thou not seen how, for some precious treasure. 
Men beat of purest gold, a goodly case ? 

Or cut for fragrant odors, at their pleasure, 
Out of rough stone, a rare and polished vase ? 
O thou short-sighted one ! take heart of grace. 

Like them, when for myself I am preparing 
Out of the soul, a fit abiding-place ; 

I hew thee, beat thee, till I see thee bearing 
My image ; and my perfect likeness trace ; 
Therefore, thou chosen one ! take heart of grace. 

Oh, then, be of good courage ! for I love thee ; 

Gladly and cheerfully each cross embrace. 
And bear it manfully ; for soon above thee. 

Light from my throne each cloud away shall 
chase ; 

Therefore, afflicted one ! take heart of grace. 

A.nd soon lifc-s sorest trials passed forever. 
Faultless before thy and my Father's face, 

I will present thee joyfully ; and never 
Need to say to thee, in that restiug-23lace, 
O weaiy, fainting sonl ! take heart of grace. 



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For every hour of that blest life immortal, 
Thou shalt be glad my guiding hand to trace, 

That made thee meet, by trials, through the porta 
To enter in, and rest in my embrace ; 
Therefore, look ux^vfard! and take heart of 
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BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. 

LOVE Thee, O my God ! but not 
For what I hope thereby, 
JNTor yet because who love Thee not 

Must die eternally. 
I love Thee, O my God ! and still 

I ever will love Thee, 
Solely because, my God, Thou art 

Who first hast loved me ! 

For me, to lowest depths of woe 

Thou didst Thyself abase ; 
For me didst bear the cross, the shame, 

And manifold disgrace ; 
For me didst suffer pains unknown, 

Blood-sweat and agony. 
Yea, death itself— all, all for me ! 

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Tbcu sball I uot, O Saviour, mine ! 

Shall I not love Thee well ? 
Xot with the hope of winning heaven, 

Nor of escaping hell ; 
Not with the hope of earning aught, 

Nor seeking a reward ; 
But freely, fully, as Thyself 

Hast loved me, O Lord I 

FRANCIS ZAVIER, 



SICK AND m PRISON. 

WILDLY falls the night around me, 
Chains I cannot break have bound nu 
Spirits unrebuked, undriven 
From before nie darken Heaven ; 
Creeds bewilder, and the saying 
Unfelt prayer makes need of pra;ying. 



In this bitter anguish lying 

Only Thou wilt hear my crying — 

Thou whose hands wash white the erring, 

As the wool is at the shearing, 

Not with dulcimer or psalter, 

But with tears, I seek Thine altar. 



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Feet, tliat trod the mount so weary, 
Eyes, tliat pitying looked on Mary, 
Hands, that brought a Father's blessing, 
Heads of little children pressing ; 
Voice, that said, " Behold thy Mother," 
Lo ! I seek ye, and none other. 

Look, O gentlest eye oi pity, 
Out ot Zion, glorious city ! 
Speak, O voice of mercy, sweetly ! 
Hide me, hands of love, completely. 
Sick, in prison, lying lonely. 
Ye can lift me up — Ye only. 

In my hot brow soothe the aching. 
In my sad heart stay the breaking ; 
On my lips, the murmurs trembling 
Change to praises undissembling ; 
Make me raise as th' evangels. 
Clothe me with the wings of angels. 

Power, that made the few loaves many, 
Power, that blessed the wine at Cana, 
Power, that said to Lazarus " waken," 
Leave, oh, leave me not forsaken. 
Sick, and hungry, and in prison, 
Save me, Crucified and Risen ! 

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"AS ONE WHOM HIS MOTHER COM- 
FORTETIL" 

UOP v/ill I comfort yon," as wlien a sobbing 

U cliild 

Seeks sweet lieart-comfort on its mother's breast ; 
By her caresses fond unconsciously beguiled 

From memories of pain, soon sinks to rest. 

"Ye shall be comforted." Om* hearts are faint 
and sore. 
We would be little children once again ; 
But childhood would bring back the griefs we 
knew of yore. 
But not the mother who caressed us then. 

We need a stronger love, we seek a deeper rest, 
Whose type and earnest we once knew in this ; 

The nestling of the child upon its mother's breast, 
The sweet dreams won us by her " good-night " 
kiss. 

Lord ! grant us restful sleep, untroubled, sweet 
and calm, 

Not fitful slumbers 'mid Life's fevered dream ; 
Oh, seal our weary eyelids with thy touch of balm 

Not to re-ope until the Great Day's gleam. 



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And yet we are such children, foolish, weak and 
blind, 
That while we long for slesp, tliy gentle hand 
May change the calming cuj), and far more wise 
and^ kind, 
Gi\'e needed bitterness with this command : 



" Drink, child !" Thy Father's love shall make the 
unsought draught 
Sweet to thy soul, though bitter to thy lips. 
Think, how for thee, thy sinless Elder Brother 
quaffed 
The cup thou filled'st, 'neath my love's eclipse. 

Ah, Father ! whatsoe'er thy children truly need 
Thou givest, not whatever they implore. 

And oft we grieving think, Thy mercy gives no 
heed 
To our rash pleadings, when our hearts are sore. 

But when the long sad lesson \vc have learned at 
length. 
And with unmurmuring meekness we receive 
Tlie cup, whose bitter draught gives new and 
mighty strength. 
We own Thy wise true love, and no more grieve ; 




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But rest in patient hope, although Thou long with- 
hold 
The chalice. Death and Life bnmmed, chiig- 
mal seal 
Of conquest at whose touch the pearly gates un- 
fold. 
And Heaven's high glories to the soul reveal. 

Wc only wait as minors, till the glad biiih-day 
Shall crown us kings before our Father's throne. 

As princely exiles here, we struggle, toil, and pray, 
With eyes by watching very weary grown. 

For comfortless, aye, orphan'd, Thou dost never 
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Thy children. Trusting hearts are kept in peace, 
And when our night-time comes, Thou'lt bid i*a 
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A Prayer for You . . . 127 

And they shall see His Face ,. 50 

Abounding in Hope y2 

An Open Door '._.. 98 

Affliction 119 

"As one whom his Mother Comforteth" r 213 

Bread Upon the Waters 182 

Because He first loved us 210 

Christ Risen , 53 

Cast Down, but not Destroyed 91 

Child on the Judgment-Seat, The 109 

Christ's Call to the Soul 141 

Contentment 180 

Come unto Me ! , . . .. 37 

Celestial Country, The 191 

Day of Rest, The 153 

Death of a Believer, The , . . . 20 

Even as Thou Wilt ! 76 

Everlasting Memorial, The 81 

Earth and Heaven 22 

Fruitless Toil ..... 131 

Glory Dwelkth in Immauuel's Land 55 

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Giver and the Gifts, The 367 

Go Tell Jesus! 188 

He Goeth before Them 03 

His Name 05 

Ho Giveth Songs in the Night 93 

House of God, The 107 

He Leads us On ,. 117 

Holj Ghost ! Dispel our Sadness 118 

Hear My Cry 129 

Have Faith in God 181 

Hold On, Hold In, Hold Out ! 187 

He Knovveth Ail 13 

Homewards 14: \ 

Hymn 35 t 

His Truth shall be thy Shield and Buckler 143 l 

In Suffering 50 P 

Is this All? 123 i 

Is There no Balm in Gilead ? 137 

I am Christ's and Christ is Mine 149 

In all Time of Tribulation 160 

I will Arise and Go to my Father 169 

I Shall be Satisfied 176 

In the Closet.. , 49 

Jacob's Ladder 71 

Jesus, I am Never Weary 277 

Kneeling at the Threshold 31 

Ivnocking, ever Knocking 69 

Light of the World, The , 114 

FiOve that Passeth Knowledge, The 156 



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Looking^ unto Jesus 42 

Loving Cup, The 1 (5 

Lord, are there {^^w that be Saved ? 2(5 

Lord, Thou art Mine ! 28 

Leave God to order all Ihy Ways S3 

Mjfeterj of Christ, The 165 

Marah 7;^ 

Js^earest and Dearest 9o 

Now I hi}^ me Down to Sleep ]12 

Nothing but Leaves 172 

Night Song 10 

Other World, The r>l 

Open Thou our Eyes 125 

Other Side, The 147 

Offering, The 135 

Only our Love 47 

Paul Gerhard t's Hymn I73 

Psalm for New Year's Eve, A 18it 

Per Pacem, Ad Lucera 75 

Rest Remainetb I75 

Rest for the Weary 184 

Sick and in Prison 211 

Surely, I Come Quickly 62 

Sorrowing, yet Always Rejoicing lOO 

Submission 12i 

Shadows of the Past 1 op 

Satisfied 151 

Shulamite at the Lord's Feet, The 155 




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Sheep-Track, The 15S 

Shadow of the Rock, The 7 

Spiritual Temple, The 44 

Sinner's Friend, The 17 

" Take Heart of Grace" 208 

The " E'en brings a' Haaie " 68 

Two Sunsets, The 77 

Two Villages, The 83 

Trust and Rest 106 

Trust 120 

Two Worlds, The 133 

Two Angels, The 135 

Their Names 142 

Two 142 

The Way is Long and Dreary 19 

Upward where the Stars are Burning. 12 

Undertake for Me 23 

Undiscovered Country, The 24 

Unseen Battle-Field, The 38 

Visitation of the Sick 163 

Why Dost Thou Wait 79 

Wayside Watcher, The 84 

Weep Not for Her 97 

Waiting for Spring 103 

Walking - . . 170 

We shall see Him as He Is , 179 

Without Money and Without Price 40 

We Stood Beside the River 29 

We Glory in Tribulation 34 

Wailing for Christ 105 



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As these that watch for day 23 

Art thou weary. Art thou languid ? 37 

And whither came these goodly stores 44 

Ah, many a time we look on starlit-nights 71 

All the day you sit here idle 84 

As the harp-strings only render 119 

And he drew near and talked with them 125 

A friend stands at the door 1 89 

Bury thy sorrovv 188 

Be thou content ; be still before 180 

Cometh sunshine after rain 173 

Come, drink ye, drink ye, all of it 16 

Could we but know 24 

Come to Jesus ! are you lonely 40 

Dropping down the troubled river 14 

Father, thy will, not mine, be done 50 

Fiet not, poor soul, while doubt and fear IOC 

Fair soul created in the primal hour 141 

(iod sends us bitter, that the sweet 73 

lie leads us on 117 

Hold on, my heart, in thy believing 187 

Heart, be still 10 

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Have faith in God, for He who reigns on high 181 

Have mercy upon me, Lord ! 76 

Hope, Christian soul ! in every stage 92 

Holy Ghost, dispel our sadness 118 

I'm kneeling at the threshold 31 

I ask if thou canst love me still, God ! 169 

It lies around us like a cloud 51 

I do not ask, Lord ! that life may be 75 

It was the Sabbath's blessed hour 95 

I have done at length with dreaming 170 

In the quiet nursery chambers 112 

I marvel night and day and cannot cease 165 

Is there no balm in Gilead ? 137 

I have a Saviour ! He's pleading in glory 127 

In the moonlight when no murmur 114 

I love Thee, my God ! but not 210 

Jesus, I am never weary 177 

Knocking, knocking, ever knocking 69 I 

Lord, thou art mine 28 

Leave God to order all thy ways 33 

Long did I toil, and kne-w no earthly rest 149 

Lord, I have toiled all night 131 

Lord, while the shadows of the past surveying 126 

Much have I borne, but not as I should bear 91 

Not what I am, Lord, but what Thou art .' 156 

Not long, not long. The spirit-wasting fever 184 

No bird-song floated down the hill 77 

No sorrow is unmingled here 100 



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No more, my own Lord Jesus ! 185 

Not as He was, a homeless stranger 179 

Not here, not here ! not where the sparkling waters 176 

Nothing but leaves ; the spirit grieves. 172 

Jesus ! friend unfailing , 151 

Oh, day most calm, most bright 153 

Once slow and sad the evening fell 107 

Oh, never say that the door is shut 98 

wonderful ! round whose birth-hour 65 

Thou ! the contrite sinner's friend 17 

Holy Saviour ! Friend unseen 35 

Oh, strong to save and bless 129 

Over the river on the hill 83 

O'er the distant mountains breaking 62 

Oh, thou ! who tossing on life's troubled ocean 208 

Poor trembling lamb, ah ! who outside the fold 79 

Poor heart, why throb thus wildly in my breast .... 155 

Peace to this House ! Thou, whose way 1 63 

Rest remaineth ; oh, how sweet ! 175 

Say not, 'twas all in vain ! 182 

Saviour ! by thy sweet compassion 160 

Sweet thought, my God ! that on the palms 142 

Sometimes I catch sweet glimpses of His face 123 

Since Thy Father's arm sustains thee 121 

" So will I comfort you," as when a sobbing child. . . 213 

The child leans on its parent's breast 120 

The path I trod so pleasant was, and fair 167 

The winds blow tierce across the barren wild 63 

The Shadow of the Rock 7 

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The twilight falls, t-tie night is near 

The way is long and dreary 

The apostle slept ; a light shone in the prison . . , 

The roseate hues of early dawn 

The sends of time are sinking 

The air is stirred with holy life 

The foe behind, the deep before 

Two angels, one of Life and one of Death 

Two worlds there are, to one our eyes we strain 

Two buds plucked from the tree 

Two v%''ays ! only two ! One leadeth 

To do Thy holy will ! 

Thou, Lord, my path shalt choose 

There is an unseen battle field 

The World is very evil 



Upward where the stars are burning 

Upon the hills the wind is sharp and cold. . 
Up, And away, like the dew of the morning 




We wait for Thee, all-glorious One ! 105 

Whether there many be or few 26 

We praise Thee oft for hours of bliss 93 

Who would not go ? 25 

Weep not for her, for she hath crossed the river 07 

\Ve stood beside the river 29 

When my sins in aspect dread 143 

W ithin this leaf, to every eye 34 

Whit must it be to dwell above 50 

Waiting for Spring. The mother watching lonely. . 103 

We dwell this side of Jordan's stream 147 

Where hast been toiling all day, sweet heart ? 109 

Wildly (alls the night around me 211 




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